Top 100 Praise You Quotes

#1. If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do.

Jack Welch

#2. Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#3. When you shift conversations and explore the greatness of your team members, you're likely to be a person who creates opportunities for their strength to show up on the job.

John Yokoyama

#4. Let me tell you how the French seduce you. They are the most bloody seductive people on Earth. They are charming, they are well-mannered and they praise and flatter you.

Anita Roddick

#5. He, who praises you for what you have not, wishes to take from you what you have.

Juan Manuel, Prince Of Villena

#6. I always wanted praise, and I always wanted attention; I won't lie to you. I was a jazz critic, and that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted people to write about me, not me about them. So I thought, 'What could I do? I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't act or anything like that. OK, I can write.'

Harvey Pekar

#7. You can't rely on the approval of others. I used to always look for praise from my directors to reassure myself that I was doing a good job. I don't do that anymore.

Jacob Vargas

#8. Be wary of the praise of men; don't let it pump you up unnecessarily and don't let it paralyze your progress

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#9. Why did the ancients praise the Way? Did they not say it was because you find what you seek and are saved from your wrongdoings?

Laozi

#10. At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

Bill Jay

#11. Prayer is simply saying "thank you, bless you, praise you."

Richard J. Foster

#12. I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.

Tom Selleck

#13. When a word ceases to be a term of description and becomes merely a term of praise, it no longer tells you about the object: it only tells you about the speakers attitude to that object.

C.S. Lewis

#14. Compliment people wherever you go. Praise every single thing you see. Be a ray of sunshine to everyone you meet.

Rhonda Byrne

#15. When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#16. You praise man who has the ability to perform great actions.
I admire man who can deal with great pain and knows no despair.

Toba Beta

#17. Let no worldly prosperity divert you, nor any worldly adversity restrain you from His praise.

Anselm Of Canterbury

#18. Praise behaviour that you want repeated

Dean Smith

#19. My heart is filled with endless praise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

Ezra Taft Benson

#21. If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms.

Jim George

#22. All I can say is I've been lucky with my body. Well done, little body. I praise it and say, 'You're very good.'

Marianne Faithfull

#23. If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

Alexander Smith

#24. When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

Robert Genn

#25. Thank You, Lord, that You are with me in everything that I face. No matter what comes against me, You are greater and more powerful. I ask You to be with me in the things I face today. I praise You and Your greatness in the midst of all that seems large and looming in my life.

Stormie O'martian

#26. We never have as great an opportunity to show self-comfort as when others around us aren't. Hint: Don't be a jerk because someone else is. Praise the behaviors in others that you most want to flourish.

Kare Anderson

#27. It's great to celebrate the victories along the way in living your dreams
but never allow the praises of your past pause you from pursuing higher heights.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#28. Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.

Mike Myers

#29. Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise.

George Orwell

#30. When you get praise from someone that you really admire it's really surreal.

Jeremy Renner

#31. 3 Because your x steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. 4 So I will bless you y as long as I live;

Anonymous

#32. You can use your tongue to slander, to gripe, to scold, to nag, and to quarrel; or you can bring it under the control of God's Spirit and make it an instrument of blessing and praise.

Billy Graham

#33. Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

Simon Cowell

#34. If you do nothing, you will see nothing.

Victoria Praise Abraham

#35. Our prayer is that as you read, you'll be struck not by the contents of this book, but by the book it's helping you open up; and that you'll praise not the author of this book, but the One he is pointing you to.

Timothy J. Keller

#36. Let me praise you tonight.
Because tomorrow you cannot be described by words,
While describing you.
Tomorrow, earth and sky will disappear altogether.

Rumi

#37. I don't need your praise
to survive. I was here first,
before you were here, before
you ever planted a garden.
And I'll be here when only the sun and moon
are left, and the sea, and the wide field.
I will constitute the field.

Louise Gluck

#38. Although my heart is torn, I will praise you in this storm.

Casting Crowns

#39. There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

Moliere

#40. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? b Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

Anonymous

#41. Please don't say you're sorry, False platitudes of sorrow, of pity, of goddamned praise of being a hero, sicken me.

Dominique Eastwick

#42. 1. Do what you say you're gonna do
2. Show up!
3. Give genuine praise whenever you can
4. Never say sorry when you don't mean it
5. Never use sarcasm in email (and use the corny ass emoticons)

Matthew Lasar

#43. Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

Dean Smith

#44. Everyone loves winners. You look for things to praise with those you believe in.

Johnny Hunt

#45. You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

Lucinda Williams

#46. Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#47. If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

Howard Behar

#48. Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#49. Mind you, Augie knew all about spoilers, but whenever she started talking about the downforce equation, adults stopped the conversation in order to praise her intelligence, which made it all but impossible to speak.

Anonymous

#50. Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing.

Bob Proctor

#51. The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.

Jack Kornfield

#52. the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do and will praise your Father in heaven.

Max Lucado

#53. You are so easily flattered, brother.'
'Because I have so many qualities to praise!

Rick Riordan

#54. Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism helps. But after something is published, all I want to read or hear is praise.

Truman Capote

#55. Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you're alive - or praising you after you ain't.

Chuck Palahniuk

#56. Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

Seneca The Younger

#57. If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.

Wahb Ibn Munabbih

#58. They said, Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?

Qur'an 2 30

#59. You will notice that the most powerful and highly stationed men let drop remarks in which they pray for leisure, praise it, and rate it higher than all their blessings.

Seneca.

#60. We can hear your voice
We can hear it through the songs of praise
We can hear it through the birds
We can hear it through the wind
We can hear your voice in our hearts
We can hear your voice in our minds
We can hear you through everyhing

April Nichole

#61. Forgive yourself for the child you were unable to save, Darius, and praise God for the many who are alive today because of your actions.

Karen Witemeyer

#62. Be sure that you think on whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. PHIL. 4:8.

Joseph Murphy

#63. There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that 'this should not be so'.

Dada Bhagwan

#64. Try it: Instead of keeping a rejection file, keep a praise file. Use it sparingly - don't get lost in past glory - but keep it around for when you need the lift.

Austin Kleon

#65. Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.

Mark The Evangelist

#66. A good rule to remember in complimenting people is this: people are more pleased at a compliment if you praise them for some virtue that is not glaringly obvious.

Leslie T. Giblin

#67. Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and resist the urge to sit him down and explain to him how his brain is not yet fully developed.

Robert Breault

#68. As a leader, you will receive a large amount of praise and criticism and you should not unduly affected by either.

John Wooden

#69. Whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. And peace will be with you.

Barbara Kingsolver

#70. You do not write a novel for praise, or thinking of your audience. You write for yourself; you work out between you and your pen the things that intrigue you

Bret Easton Ellis

#71. You need to know the truth to be able to praise God

Sunday Adelaja

#72. She smiles at me. "You're the biggest geek I've ever known." When she says it, I hear pride in her voice. To Lola, this is the ultimate praise.

Christina Lauren

#73. You have turned for me my mourning into m dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, 12 that my n glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Anonymous

#74. These precious things should be proud of their luck, if a woman like you owns them.

Waheed Ibne Musa

#75. I want to fill a jar with a lot of clapping, and sell my applause next to the applesauce in a grocery store. You can eat the praise you didn't earn, but did pay for.

Jarod Kintz

#76. The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#77. Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

Marcus Aurelius

#78. Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.

Paul Of The Cross

#79. You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

John Wooden

#80. To get the respect of people, I think you've got to roll up your sleeves and lead with your people. The absolute key is treating your people well. Looking for the best in your people. Lots and lots of praise, no criticism.

Richard Branson

#81. As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun.

Epictetus

#82. I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.

Mary Kay Ash

#83. When you pray do so correctly following the TAP routine: T is to first Thank God, A is to ask kindly for whatever you need and P is to praise Him simply by saying, "You are the best and the greatest.

Norma Ayuso

#84. Prayers offered in faith and then followed by songs of thanksgiving, praise and worship are an expression of our faith and love for God. Joy results when you have faith in the greatness of God and his power to deliver and save you and others from adverse circumstances and enemies.

James Strand

#85. Always praise 'em before you hit 'em.

Roger Stone

#86. Should you ever be so lucky as to encounter an author in your life, you should shower her or him with gifts and praise. Sir

Jonathan Auxier

#87. People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Denis Diderot

#88. You always feel you are not deserving. People who are successful at what they do know what kind of work goes with it, so they are surprised at the praise.

Virginia Hamilton

#89. I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.]
[Lat., Laetus sum
Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#90. Everything you do doesn't
need praise.
if you're aware of
your intention the
glory is already yours.
the constant need for
acknowledgement and
approval will divert
your purpose.

Alexandra Elle

#91. If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.

Chris Brogan

#92. So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#93. 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

#94. If you live in certain places, in a certain way, you'd better learn to praise the small felicities.

Michael Cunningham

#95. Instead of, "Excellent work."
Try, "I see you circled every single picture that begins with the letter B."

Instead of, "Good job following directions."
Try, "You found your spot in the circle as soon as you heard 'circle time.

Julie King

#96. So what should we say when children complete a task - say, math problems - quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let's do something you can really learn from!

Carol S. Dweck

#97. YOU might be limited by a life situation, but GOD is never hampered. Praise Him!

Elizabeth George

#98. You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

Guillermo Del Toro

#99. am a creative being
A Being that You created
You have unselfishly given me talent
And I am here to showcase it
All in praise of You
You are the spirit within me
You are the driving force
I, Thank You
O, God
I, Thank You

Sandra Proto

#100. Raise and Praise; it keeps the devil away!
Feeling down? Start praising even if it is a sacrifice of praise. You will soon start feeling better because the devil will not stick around & praise God with you!

Sandra Lott

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