Praising Ourselves Quotes

#1. To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves ... let us be above such transparent egotism.

Will Durant

#2. When sisters sit together, they're always praising their brothers.
When brothers sit together, they're selling their sisters to others.

Anonymous

#3. It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.

Karl Barth

#4. The horse must perform from joy, not subservience. Praising a horse frequently with voice, a gentle pat, or relaxing the reins is very important to keep the horse interested and willing.

Klaus Balkenhol

#5. Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Billy Sunday

#6. As a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, a great motivator, be very good at praising and bringing out the best in people.

Richard Branson

#7. I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

Dean Smith

#8. No matter what stuff the devil throws at us one way we can get threw it is by praising and thanking the Lord.

Amanda Penland

#9. The moment when you take your first step through the gates of hell, the only thing you will hear is all of creation standing to its feet and applauding and praising God because God has rid the earth of you. That's how not good you are.

Paul Washer

#10. Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.

Richard Rohr

#11. Knowing God supersedes everything else because it is the supreme cause. Everything else - being, doing, loving, believing, hoping, praising, worshipping, evangelizing, glorifying, enjoying - is an effect.

Larry Alan Thompson

#12. Praising all alike, is praising none.

John Gay

#13. The blurbs on the flyleaf, written by leading American historians, were fulsome, praising the book for shedding light on a forgotten chapter in colonial history.

Teju Cole

#14. The thing about praising beauty is that good looks are an unforgiving task- master, a Forth Bridge of a maintenance job. The passing years present their accounts. Younger models become available.

Laurie Graham

#15. Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

Gregory David Roberts

#16. It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

Robert Wilson Lynd