Funny Self Praise Quotes

#1. Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.

Peter Menzel

#2. I did not lie awake at night worrying about the problems of Negroes.

Robert F. Kennedy

#3. Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must afflict those who know they no longer remember anything. But something tells me that after a certain time a secret joy possesses them, a joy they would not agree to trade for any of their memories, even the most stirring. ...

Emil Cioran

#4. Parenting is a bit like baking a cake. You put all the right stuff in and do exactly what your mother wrote in the recipe but when you look away for just a second, someone bounces in front of the oven and you end up with something unexpected.

K.T. Bowes

#5. I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

Michael Caine

#6. How tedious is time, when his wings are loaded with expectation!

Mary Collyer

#7. L.A. has been a great place to dip into, but I'll always come back to London.

Suki Waterhouse

#8. Until God opens the next door, praise Him in the hallway.

Nicky Gumbel

#9. I'm afraid you're going to break me, Quinn."
"Don't let me." The challenge in his eyes intensified, heating up and pouring strength into me. "Don't you let me fucking do that, Emilie. Don't let anyone break you. You're stronger than that.

Lyla Payne

#10. Fine, I'll touch you, briefly, but only because you sound like you need the praise that your body's hot, and I'm totally selfless like that.

Kyle Adams

#11. Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one in history affects everyone.

Bauvard

#12. I believe anything can happen.

Lesley Nicol

#13. And the last thing that I want to see us do is ask more and more of our troops [in Afghanistan ] without guaranteeing that we're providing more and more of what's necessary to make the mission successful.

Rahm Emanuel

#14. Your skin is your largest organ, and it wants to breathe. There are so many times, like Fashion Week, when you [need to] think about all the stuff your skin and body have absorbed through makeup and products and all this stuff.

Erin Wasson

#15. Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

Mink Stole

#16. You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

Amit Kalantri

#17. Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.

Asvaghosa

#18. Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#19. They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

Kevin Keegan

#20. It is about simple awareness - awareness of what is so real and
essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep
reminding ourselves, over and over: This is water, this is water.

David Foster Wallace

#21. FRACTURED FACTIONS
Many cults are created by the uncontrollable egos of religious zealots

Kamil Ali

#22. I would prefer my experiences in communication to have a growth-promoting effect, both on me and on the other, and I should like to avoid those communication experiences in which both I and the other person feel diminished.

Carl R. Rogers

#23. I had to face the fact that I had been using my gay friends as props. They were always supposed to be funny and entertain me and praise me and listen to my problems, and their life was supposed to be a secret that no one wanted to hear about. I wanted them to stay in the half closet.

Tina Fey