Top 58 Commendable Quotes
#1. Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.
George Washington
#2. Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.
Ovid
#3. All that is good and commendable now existing would continue to exist if all marriage laws were repealed tomorrow ...
Victoria Woodhull
#4. 19. The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that the society was taught to respect all workers.
Sunday Adelaja
#5. Don't tell me you don't trust me, Lucinda. For the way I exercised such commendable restraint last night, I deserve a medal, not suspicion.
Lisa Kleypas
#6. Most nonfiction writers have a definitiveness complex. They feel that they are under some obligation - to the subject, to their honor, to the gods of writing - to make their article the last word. It's a commendable impulse, but there is no last word.
William Zinsser
#7. I don't want to talk anymore," I mumbled.
A throaty sound rumbled above me. "That is wise. This time should be spent eating, fattening you up. How anyone as scrawny as you can walk is commendable.
Ashlan Thomas
#8. So our virtues
Lie in the interpretation of the time:
And power, unto itself most commendable,
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair
To extol what it hath done.
One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;
Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail.
William Shakespeare
#9. To be a rainbow in someone's cloud is commendable, but I prefer to be the rain because it dampens cheeks and washes away tears.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#10. Self-exposure is commendable in art only when it is of a quality and complexity that allows other people to learn about themselves from it.
Susan Sontag
#11. Silence is only commendable
In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.
William Shakespeare
#12. My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
Robert E.Lee
#13. Schopenhauer's Will-to-live, commendable as it may seem as a hypothesis, is too overwrought in the proving to be anything more than another intellectual labyrinth for specialists in perplexity. Comparatively, Zapffe's principles are non-technical and could never arouse the passion of professors
Thomas Ligotti
#14. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.
Alan Kulwicki
#15. Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#16. The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.
Baha'u'llah
#17. I believe that even 'returning-to-nature' and anti pollution activities, no matter how commendable, are not moving toward a genuine solution if they are carried out solely in reaction to the over development of the present age.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#18. I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots.
William Shakespeare
#19. For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose-is choosing-its own destiny this instant.
Neale Donald Walsch
#20. Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?" Cecily
Cassandra Clare
#21. While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
James Branch Cabell
#22. The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.
Kailash Kher
#23. Any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life, or hasn't the wit to appreciate danger. But to understand the risk, perhaps even to flinch at first, but then to summon the strength to face them down - that in my opinion is the most commendable form of valour
Robert Harris
#24. A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker.
Alexander Smith
#25. Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.
Warren G. Harding
#26. 'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.
Naveen Jain
#27. Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
Jean De La Bruyere
#28. Wasn't it? Is loyalty still a commendable quality when it is misdirected?
Cassandra Clare
#29. To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.
Shiloh Fernandez
#30. There is no virtue in doing something for someone else when it's something you also want to do. That's merely being helpful, but it's hardly commendable. The real virtue is in doing something you don't want to do, but doing it because someone else wants it.
Ann B. Ross
#31. The elegant Lord Shaftesbury somewhere objects to telling too much truth: by which it may be fairly inferred, that, in some cases, to lie is not only excusable but commendable. And
Henry Fielding
#32. It is as commendable to think well of oneself when alone, as it is ridiculous to speak well of oneself among others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#33. The late Dr. Harry Ironside once said, "Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions." To be sure, we must deplore wickedness, evil, and wrongdoing, but our commendable intolerance of sin too often develops into a deplorable intolerance of sinners. Jesus hates sin but loves the sinner.
Billy Graham
#34. Terrorism can be commendable, and it can be reprehensible. The terrorism we practice is of the commendable kind for it is directed at the tyrants and the aggressors and the enemies of Allah.
Osama Bin Laden
#35. The manner in which the Americans are subdivided into sects also conflicts with any commendable desire that may exist to build glorious temples in honor of the Deity: and convenience is more consulted than taste, perhaps, in all that relates to ecclesiastical architecture. Nevertheless,
James Fenimore Cooper
#36. There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.
Jean De La Bruyere
#37. Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else.
Criss Jami
#38. At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
Hannah Storm
#39. I love Canadians. They are the coolest, nicest, most patriotic people, and they will support their countrymen no matter what, and I think that's commendable.
Ronda Rousey
#40. In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
Christopher Wren
#41. Ethiopia's government is doing a commendable job of working closely with donors and humanitarian organizations to educate parents about child marriage, and to support organizations like the Hamlin Fistula Hospital.
Helene D. Gayle
#42. It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.
Jean De La Bruyere
#43. man of power and responsibility nevertheless needs somebody to tell him when he is being a bloody fool. Granny Aching fulfilled that task with commendable enthusiasm,
Terry Pratchett
#44. Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor.
Saadi
#45. It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.
Michael Chabon
#46. In the life of the individual, an aesthetic sensibility is both more authentic and more commendable than a political or religious one.
Tom Robbins
#47. The virtue of silence is highly commendable, and will contribute greatly to your ease and prosperity. The best proof of wisdom is to talk little, but to hear much. . . . - SAMUEL & SARAH ADAMS, THE COMPLETE SERVANT, 1825
Julie Klassen
#48. Lyotard has described the postmodern condition succinctly as "incredulity towards metanarratives":' an attitude commendable in itself, no doubt, but also one that can easily be translated into a dogmatic metanarrative of its own. In
David Bentley Hart
#49. The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.
Joseph Joubert
#50. Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful
Stephen King
#51. A moral Agent is a being that is capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense, virtuous or vicious, commendable or faulty.
Jonathan Edwards
#52. She's efficient and well liked, but keeps to herself. Quiet. Which is a rare and commendable female trait, in my experience. She works harder than the other two clerks, but gets paid less.
Kerrigan Byrne
#54. Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.
Ovid
#55. The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme.
John Buford
#56. The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that Superstition regarding work and wealth was broken. Everybody now knows that wealth comes only from hard work, not from some superstitious beliefs.
Sunday Adelaja
#57. Men are of three different capacities: one understands intuitively; another understands so far as it is explained; and a third understands neither of himself nor by explanation. The first is excellent, the second, commendable, and the third, altogether useless.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#58. The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
Ovid
