Top 100 Commend Quotes
#1. I want to commend the [Federalist] Society for bringing together the best minds from right, left, and center to debate the most pressing legal issues of the day.
Samuel Alito
#2. Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud
#3. I don't like happy people," Andrew said. "They're already happy; they don't need to be liked." "Wow, so selfless," Mark said. "You're a saint. I commend your selflessness. Amazing.
Tao Lin
#4. What, I'm a mechanic. I get dirty. If he wanted me to get all gussied up, he should have commend ahead.
Marissa Meyer
#5. Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.
Jacques Barzun
#6. We state and commend the faith only in so far as we go out and put ourselves inside the doubts of the doubters, the questions of the questioners and the loneliness of those who have lost their way.
John R.W. Stott
#7. Commend me to the cardinal,' said Milady. 'Commend me to Satan,' replied Rochefort.
Alexandre Dumas
#8. The tragic nuclear accident at Fukushima underscored the urgent need to enhance nuclear safety and the international emergency response framework. I commend the International Atomic Energy Agency for its work.
Ban Ki-moon
#9. But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
Lionel Shriver
#10. My hope is in you, Lord. Be my refuge, for You are my strength ... Into Your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit. You have redeemed me, Lord, God of Truth.
Bernadette Soubirous
#11. A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
John Tillotson
#12. I warmly commend it to all Christians who want to grow in their faith.
Jerry Bridges
#13. Other Courtesies have been -
Other Courtesy may be -
We commend ourselves to thee
Paragon of Chivalry.
Emily Dickinson
#14. How oft review; each finding, like a friend, Something to blame, and something to commend.
George Eliot
#15. I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come.
Brian Mulroney
#16. Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.
Dallas Willard
#17. The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.
Voltaire
#18. I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.
Ted Stevens
#19. We commend the commission, under the leadership of Chairman Martin, for recognizing the reality of today's communications marketplace and for fostering an environment where there will be greater choice in communications services and providers.
Edward Whitacre Jr.
#20. Whenever you commend, add a compelling reason for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and the admiration of fools.
Richard Steele
#21. Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.
Richard Land
#22. To Jesus Christ I commend my soul; Lord Jesus, receive my soul.
Anne Boleyn
#23. I love the man that is modestly valiant; that stirs not till he most needs, and then to purpose. A continued patience I commend not.
Owen Feltham
#24. Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
Emily Dickinson
#25. And for always getting what she wants in the long run, commend me to a nasty woman.
Edith Wharton
#26. I commend you on all you've done for PETA, wrestling the one-eyed trouser snake with your bare hands, gently cuddling it in your arms, and nurturing it back to health.
Sarah Silverman
#27. I commend my soul into the hands of God, my Creator, hoping and
assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ, my
Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting.
William Shakespeare
#28. This is why I belong, and why I believe. I commend to all this same search for happiness and for the truth.
Clayton Christensen
#29. If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#31. To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love.
John Donne
#32. We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.
Pope Clement I
#33. Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?
George Edward Moore
#34. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
Richard Steele
#35. Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander Pope
#36. We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.
Thomas Browne
#37. We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise.
Anonymous
#38. As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his client.
Hyman Rickover
#39. I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.
George Washington
#40. Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?
Nicholas Grimald
#41. If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.
Alveda King
#42. It signifies that the great judge of the dead looks down on men to see that justice is done and that truth prevails. So I commend you to the good Osiris;
R. Austin Freeman
#43. Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#44. Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit.
Anonymous
#45. I commend #AIESEC's continuing efforts to develop the #future #business #leadership of our countries.
Nelson Mandela
#46. All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
Thomas Fuller
#47. Why is it so embarrassing to admit you like someone? It should be a compliment to them, and even if they don't like you back, they should at least commend you on your refined taste.
Dalya Moon
#48. I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
Benjamin Franklin
#50. The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world.
Natalie Massenet
#51. For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
Nathan Deal
#52. O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.
Anne Boleyn
#54. While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
Ruben Hinojosa
#55. The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.
Charles Spurgeon
#56. It is precisely our sins, and not our goodnesses, that most commend us to the grace of God.
Robert Farrar Capon
#57. Bringing 17 crore people to the doors of the bank is a huge task and I commend all the bank officials for the same. It is not difficult to open a bank branch, it is difficult to get 17 crore people to open bank accounts.
Narendra Modi
#58. If we do not commend the Gospel to people by our holy walk and conversation, we shall not win them to Christ. Some little act of kindness will perhaps do more to influence them than any number of long sermons.
Dwight L. Moody
#59. But when we commend Christ as the one who satisfies our soul forever - even when there is no health, wealth, and prosperity - then Christ is magnified as more precious than all those gifts.
John Piper
#60. Commend him gently, whom the wrath he suckled at his heart has wasted more than years.
Cormac McCarthy
#61. Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.
William Law
#62. That is not true, but we lack the moral authority to endorse them (acts of euthanasia). What we do instead is what you have just seen. We commend the dying to Saint Hubert and tie them to a pillar in order to prolong and intensify their suffering.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#63. All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
Thomas A Kempis
#64. After all, there is no advice which I can give you which you will not find plainly set down in the Book your mother taught you to reverence and love; and I therefore commend you to God, and to the word of His grace.
George E. Sargent
#65. To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#66. I commend you, Postumus, for kissing me with only half your lip; you may, however, if you please, withhold even the half of this half. Are you inclined to grant me a boon still greater, and even inexpressible? Keep this whole half entirely to yourself, Postumus.
Martial
#67. Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order to commend a civilization, an institution or an ideology, but rather a person, Jesus Christ, whom they believe to be unique.
John R.W. Stott
#68. That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality.
Jeaniene Frost
#69. This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with some graceful hand waving about incommensurability; declare that nothing could reconcile these great goods; and (with a tip of trilby) commend liberal pluralism for living with the contradictions.
Kwame Anthony Appiah
#70. For sheer primitive rage, commend me to a thoroughgoing humanitarian when you get him well roused.
Agatha Christie
#71. I think all men know better than they do; know that the institutions we so volubly commend are go-carts and baubles; but they darenot trust their presentiments.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. Reprove thy friend privately: commend him publicly.
Solon
#73. I commend to you the virtues of thrift and industry. In doing so, I do not wish you to be a "tightwad," if you will pardon that expression, or to be a freeloader, or anything of the kind.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#74. But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend.
Homer
#75. Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.
Bob Riley
#76. Be slow to correct and quick to commend.
John Wooden
#77. A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes
#78. Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces
William Shakespeare
#80. Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
Walter Scott
#81. Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
John Selden
#82. We commend President Obama and his administration for taking this strong action against Iceland and its barbaric whaling industry ... and we urge the President to take similar action against Japan and Norway as well!
Hayden Panettiere
#83. The Power of One Hail Mary can change the world. In all our efforts and endeavors, we can never underestimate the power of prayer, and must always rely upon the help of God. In a special way we commend our efforts to the Mother of God and our own Blessed Mother.
Thomas Vose Daily
#84. My dad always said to go for my hobby and used to commend me for my excellent judgement so i try to do the similar for my children.
Heather McDonald
#85. Why did you envy? Why you go against me? When I got trendy, why you aint commend me? Why when I needed it, why you couldn't lend me? Why you was secretive frontin like you friendly?
Nicki Minaj
#86. I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#87. Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.
Jake Owen
#88. Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she.
William Shakespeare
#89. Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.
Charles Spurgeon
#90. Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
Henry Fielding
#91. Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.
Edward Bouverie Pusey
#92. Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#93. I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
John Milton
#94. Dear other iterations of my past self, Thank you for not being so goddamn weird that I felt I had to address you personally in a letter from the future. I commend you.
Allie Brosh
#95. There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
William Shenstone
#96. Stop tagging everyone into your life's profile. For all you don't know, some will neither comment nor commend you; some may not like or hike with you! Evil companies corrupt good morals ... Watch who goes with you and why! ... live life soooo well!!
Israelmore Ayivor
#97. I commend lovers, I am enheartened by lovers, I am encouraged by their courage and inspired by their passion.
Maya Angelou
#98. They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.
Koushun Takami
#99. If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!
Alison Assiter
#100. When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.
Mason Cooley
