Top 42 Extol Quotes
#2. When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition.
Anthony Trollope
#3. Extol not riches, then, the toil of fools,
The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare; more apt
To slacken virtue and abate her edge
Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.
John Milton
#4. It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.
Wendy Kaminer
#5. Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.
David Hume
#6. No, it was not the money that I valued - what I wanted was to make all this mob of Heintzes, hotel proprietors, and fine ladies of Baden talk about me, recount my story, wonder at me, extol my doings, and worship my winnings.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#7. We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times.
[Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]
Tacitus
#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. Praise and worship shouldn't be a few hour church service entertainment. It should be our heartbeat and should never depart our lips. 'Let us come before him with thanks giving and extol him with music and song' (Psalms 95:2).
Euginia Herlihy
#10. Little moments nostalgia
does not have to extol, because they were already nice to begin with.
Fiona Maazel
#13. The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship.
Bernard Cornwell
#14. Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to extol the virtues of poison insecticides, herbicides, and commercial fertilizers.
Joe Nichols
#15. The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
Julien Benda
#16. 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
#17. Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#18. I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.
Estelle Parsons
#19. Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.
Geraldo Rivera
#20. The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.
Nikki Giovanni
#21. I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.
August Wilson
#22. These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.
Pope Pius IX
#23. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine;
Anonymous
#24. All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#25. For who in fact seeks the salvation of souls through indulgences, and not instead money for his coffers? This is evident from the way indulgences are preached . For the commissioners and preachers do nothing but extol indulgences and incite.
Martin Luther
#26. Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
Joseph Nye
#28. If you cannot extol the virtue of your own creation, how can you expect others to?
Lynda Bester
#29. If the 21st Century is the era of knowledge and of knowledgeable human-force, then, to extol this force, Gujarat must form a strong bond with books.
Narendra Modi
#30. The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.
Francis Bacon
#31. Not an angel more pure than I shall be, for I shall be able to say, in a double sense, "I am clean," through Jesus' blood, and through the Spirit's work. Oh, how should we extol the power of the Holy Ghost in thus making us fit to stand before our Father in heaven!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#32. It is so much easier to extol the virtues of civility than to talk civilly about the virtues we need to uphold.
Amitai Etzioni
#34. Psalm 34:1 "I will extol the Lord at all times; His praise will always be on my lips
John Bernthal
#35. Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies.
[Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui
Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]
Horace
#37. How can I appreciate light from an aging
sun shining through new configurations neither pine
nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing
fragrances from the spires, the spicules
of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?
Pattiann Rogers
#38. Extol the Lord our God; worship at his footstool. Holy is he! Psalm 99:5
Moravian Church
#39. Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society ... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.
Gore Vidal
#40. That language could but extol, not reproduce, the beauties of the sense.
Thomas Mann
#41. While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.
Henry Rollins
#42. Son, you walked into the den of a master. If you aren't able to extol the virtues of your mattress, Mara will guide you to one that you are. So, while you're here, you need to let Mara show you our Spring Deluxe
Kristen Ashley
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