Top 100 Praise Is Quotes
#1. Beautiful things of any kind are beautiful in themselves and sufficient to themselves. Praise is extraneous. The object of praise remains what it was - no better and no worse.
Marcus Aurelius
#2. I do know it's great to have a support from a fan base of a team. Football is such a team game, such a team aspect to it ... Good things happen, the praise is spread around; and bad things happen, usually it's not just one person's fault.
Andrew Luck
#3. The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
Charlotte Lennox
#4. Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.
Edward Young
#5. Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
John Madden
#8. A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.
Emily Post
#10. Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.
Brian Tracy
#11. All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.
Mike Tyson
#12. Praise is the highest occupation of any being
Max Lucado
#14. Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.
Matt Redman
#16. in an individual sense, we are to be continual worshipers and praisers. Worship and praise is not something we decide to do for a few minutes a day or once a week, but it is who we are. Our attitude should always be that of a worshiper.
Ronald Sawka
#17. Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.
Chris Van Allsburg
#18. There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.
Victor Robinson
#20. Self-praise is the first sign of insecurity.
Avijeet Das
#22. Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#23. Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#24. Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs.
Louisa May Alcott
#25. What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.
David Hume
#26. Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#27. Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb.
Thomas Browne
#29. To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.
Rumi
#30. Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume.
Christoph Waltz
#31. An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.
Emily Post
#33. Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.
Joanna Baillie
#34. The man who acts humble in order to win praise is guilty of the lowest form of pride.
Nachman Of Breslov
#35. When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.
Dogen
#36. If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.
Zig Ziglar
#37. When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is almost always worse than the criticism.
Sherwood Anderson
#39. Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.
James Freeman Clarke
#40. If we accept that the love of praise is a sin, that the lust to be known and appreciated by others is not just a fool's errand...but perhaps evidence of a heart focused on the wrong things, our marriages will be transformed.
Gary Thomas
#41. To praise is an investment in happiness.
David Dunn
#42. If God doesn't answer the way you want, you still need to praise through. That is when it's most difficult to praise God, but that is also when our praise is most pure and most pleasing to God.
Mark Batterson
#43. (28) And it is He who sends down rain after [men] have lost all hope, and unfolds His grace [thereby]:4047 for He alone is [their] Protector, the One to whom all praise is due.
Anonymous
#44. To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.
Barbara Smoker
#45. Respect for character is always diminished in proportion to the number among whom the blame or praise is to be divided.
James Madison
#46. A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
Walter Savage Landor
#48. The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#49. What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself,
by saying implicitly,
My eyes are clear."
Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing
himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well
with my eyes so inflamed.
Rumi
#50. 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.
Billy Graham
#52. For me to praise is interrupting praise.
Rumi
#53. Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
Mark Twain
#54. I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.
Rosalind Wiseman
#55. The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
William Hazlitt
#56. Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.
Carl Lentz
#58. A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#59. Acting humble for people's praise is one of the most dangerous forms of riyaa (showing off).
Omar Suleiman
#60. I don't know that praise is always a good thing.
Paul Dano
#61. Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.
Charles Spurgeon
#63. We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
Jean Rostand
#64. What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
Jane Austen
#65. Praise is declaration, a victory cry, proclaiming faith to stand firm in the place God has given you. Praise is a proclamation that the enemy's intent to plunder you will not rock you. Praise declares that you will not be moved by the enemy's attempt to snatch you away.
Darlene Zschech
#66. Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.
Michel De Montaigne
#67. Ian Callaghan is everything good that a man can be. No praise is too high for him. Words cannot do justice to the amount he has contributed to the game. Ian Callaghan will go down as one of the game's truly great players.
Bill Shankly
#68. Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart
and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#71. Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
James Mackintosh
#72. Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit, we cannot flower and grow without it.
Jess Lair
#73. Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
Phyllis McGinley
#74. A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.
William Arthur Ward
#75. If praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.
Paul David Tripp
#76. Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.
Charles Spurgeon
#77. Prayer is asking God to do something, future tense; praise is believing that God has already done it, past tense.
Mark Batterson
#78. Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities.
Smith Wigglesworth
#79. The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'
Andrew Clements
#80. Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power and depth, praise these qualities. Praise them daily. A number of times.
David Deida
#81. Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.
Leonard Ravenhill
#82. ROM2.29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Anonymous
#83. Another reason for the primacy of praise is that it has such power to heal what is wrong with us and create inner spiritual health.
Timothy J. Keller
#84. Art is sexless; - good work is eternal, no matter whether it is man or woman who has accomplished it ... Ah, but the world will never own woman's work to be great even if it be so, because men give the verdict, and man's praise is for himself and his own achievements always.
Marie Corelli
#85. Great Timon, noble, worthy, royal Timon!
Ah, when the means are gone that buy this praise,
The breath is gone whereof this praise is made:
Feast-won, fast-lost; one cloud of winter showers,
These flies are couch'd.
William Shakespeare
#86. You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.
Horace Mann
#87. Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.
Pope Francis
#88. Grudging praise is the most flattering of all.
Mike Carey
#89. Automatic praise is a mere succession of noises.
C.E.M. Joad
#90. If you stroke a cat, it will purr; and, as inevitably, if you praise a man, a sweet expression of delight will appear on his face; and even though the praise is a palpable lie, it will be welcome, if the matter is one on which he prides himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#91. For joy in the LORD, O you righteous ones; Praise is bbecoming to the upright.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#92. The extra opinions and the extra praise is just a bonus, it's not the main thing. The main thing is how I feel about myself. And I feel really good about myself.
Brandy Norwood
#93. Praise is always a good thing, especially in a crisis.
John Scalzi
#94. He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.
Samuel Johnson
#95. Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#96. Both criticism and praise is part of putting yourself out there.
Richard Sherman
#98. Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.
C.S. Lewis
#99. Praise is pushing back my daily worries and impending tasks to acknowledge my always present, never changing God.
Kathi Lambrides Westlund
#100. Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity
Jose De Alencar
