Praise Quotes

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.

What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.

Music is a religion to me and my friends.

This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

All fame is dangerous: Good, bringeth Envy; Bad, Shame.

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This applies even more to what it commonly called beautiful: natural objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty has no need of anything beyond itself.

Counting one thousand gifts, I discovered I could count on God.

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

… the greatest statesman living….There is no doubt that Hitler, so far as Germany is concerned, is the resurrection and the life. He is the savior of Germany, a great and wonderful leader. He is the George Washington of Germany.

Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.

It's nice to have a lot of people supportive of what I'm doing.

It's nice to have genuine appreciation for what you've achieved in the game. You don't often get it in Britain.

Theirs is a Spartan morality. Not the corruption but the discovery that constitutes the crime. Instead of applauding the investigators, they make war on the investigation. Instead of condemning the exposed and praising the exposure, they praised the exposed and condemned the exposure

You did good Roza. Very good. Now sleep.

The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.

He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.