Quotes of: Praise Keyword

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Charles Fillmore

When a father praises his son, he flatters himself.

American

Women believe the strangest of lies as long as they are wrapped up in praise.

French

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

Ezra Taft Benson

Good books get praised, bad books get praised. Good books get ignored, bad books get ignored

Vikram Seth

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of ...

Rumi

The most highly praised woman is the one about whom no one speaks.

Chinese

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Igor Stravinsky

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Sydney Smith

Though he slay me, yet I will praise him," he began softly, his voice a little tremulous at first. "I will rise up in the morning with the dew and praise his name. He has given me a place to serve him, a name with which to be known. He has called me ...

The Shadow Things

A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.

German

Don't praise my good fortune before I'm dead and buried.

Tibetan

The ignorance we’re ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

I Don't Know: In Praise of Admitting Ignorance

. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.

Reflections on the Psalms

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life

We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.

Sharon Salzberg

Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Igor Stravinsky

Praise excites my ego; love touches my heart. I am in love with the universe and I praise nature’s art.

Debasish Mridha

It is a sad situation for a son-in-law when his mother-in-law praises him.

Chinese

Let every man praise the bridge he goes over.

English

One morning as I closed the cyclone-fence gate / to begin a slow drift / down to the cookhouse on foot / (because my truck wheels were glued / in deep mud once again), / I walked straight into / the waiting non-arms of a snake, / its tan beaded-bag s...

I Praise My Destroyer: Poems