Quotes About False Praise

#1. But unlike Jack, Bobby had not been groomed to be a candidate, and he was constitutionally incapable of the flattery and false praise with which politicians like Johnson got others to do their daily bidding.

Jonathan Darman

#2. True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#3. False praise can please, and calumny affright
None but the vicious, and the hypocrite.

Horace

#4. False praise is worse than no praise.

Felix Dennis

#5. Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

Condoleezza Rice

#6. False praise is always confined to the great.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

#7. Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends

Fraser Young

#8. Wise people prefer to benefit from constructive criticism rather than be ruined by false praise

Shiv Khera

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

Dean Smith

#10. A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

Ashanti

#11. That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. Night and day, wind and storm, tide and earthquake, impeded man no longer. He had harnessed Leviathan. All the old literature, with its praise of Nature, and its fear of Nature, rang false as the prattle of a child.

E. M. Forster

#13. Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

Philibert Joseph Roux

#14. Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

Thomas Carlyle

#15. The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.

Arthur Henderson

#16. May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.

Joyce Rachelle

#17. My grandfather was sparing in his praise of apprentices. My grandfather insisted we think for ourselves and achieve for our own satisfaction. Deep study of the mysteries were their own tough path, he always said. To live for the approval of others was a pitfall that begged a false turning.

Janny Wurts

#18. Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Francis Bacon

#19. I am enthusiastic.
I am endless.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. There wasn't even a bed in the room, just a narrow settee where Nina curled up every night. When Kaz had asked Nina why, she'd simply said, "I don't want anyone getting ideas." "A man doesn't need a bed to get ideas, Nina.

Leigh Bardugo

#21. If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.

Olivia Wilde

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

Dominique Eastwick

#23. As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

Jenna Bush

#24. Grace is false, and beauty is vain. A woman who fears God - she is praised. Give to her of the fruit of her hands, and her deeds will praise her at the gates.

Jonathan Kellerman