The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
There will be, and should be, reams and reams of analysis, even praise, for our friend but also even larger measures of non-analysis and, certainly, condemnation for James Baldwin, the Negro writer.
Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
Ma is my biggest critic. When she cleans my cupboard she keeps nagging me as to why I have 20 shoes or why my accessories don't match my dresses. I just keep hiding things from her. There are times when I wonder why she can't praise me like other mommies. But, in a way she is right and I like it when she corrects me.
Many of Bush's defenders have praised him for keeping the country safe since Sept. 11, 2001. He deserves that praise, and I'm perfectly happy to defend most of his surveillance, interrogation and counterterrorism policies against his critics.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.
