Top 100 Quotes About Praises
#1. If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.
Dwight L. Moody
#2. A snob is unreliable. The work he praises might just be good.
Karl Kraus
#3. The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.
Martin Yan
#4. They sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.
Anonymous
#5. He who sings the praises of his boyhood's days.
Horace
#6. For every one person who praises you, there are a hundred who would criticize. Heed neither the one nor the hundred. It is your own opinion that truly matters.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#7. And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears listening to the silence and its choirs singing the hymns of time, intoning the praises of the firmament, revealing the secrets of the invisible.
Khalil Gibran
#9. Don't get high off praises, and don't get too low on critiques.
Janelle Monae
#11. Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.
Paul Eldridge
#12. Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.
Simon Schama
#13. They're singing your praises while stealing your phrases.
Charles Mingus
#14. To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.
Cynthia Ozick
#15. Alma didn't want Isabel to start singing the praises of their pet, a rescue beagle, or she wouldn't shush until sundown.
"I've found the missing lady," Alma said. "Say welcome home, Betsy Sweet.
Ed Lynskey
#16. A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself.
Evagrius Ponticus
#17. If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
Joseph Addison
#18. Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises ... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
Herman Melville
#19. The young girl in my story is to be as sensitive to praise as a prism is to light. Whenever anybody praises her she breaks into colors.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#20. I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.
Augustus Toplady
#21. It is a pleasure to a real lover of Nature to give winter all the glory he can, for summer will make its own way, and speak its own praises.
Dorothy Wordsworth
#22. In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
George Balanchine
#23. The Reverend Sydney Smith, though a man of the cloth, caught the spirit of the age by declining to say grace. 'With the ravenous orgasm upon you, it seems impertinent to interpose a religious sentiment,' he explained. 'It is a confusion of purpose to mutter out praises from a mouth that waters.
Bill Bryson
#24. Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.
Isaac Hayes
#25. But there are many fools in the world. One praises God for their existence and keeps out of their way.
Agatha Christie
#26. But the praises of father or mother do our Selves good, and comfort them and make them beautiful.
George MacDonald
#27. The Gita has sung the praises of Knowledge, but it is beyond the mere intellect; it is essentially addressed to the heart and capable of being understood by the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. Ah,the pure shine of a few moments of heroism, high courage, and derring-do! In its light we genuflect before the Hero, we bask inthe warmth of his Deeds, we tout him, shout him praises, deify him, and, in short, make of him what no mortal could ever be.
Oakley Hall
#29. Torremolinos has no Jesus Gil, no pretty little old town, and no resident celebrities to sing its praises.
David Hewson
#30. Blessings we enjoy daily, and for most of them, because they be so common, we forget to pay our praises. But let not us, because it is a sacrifice so pleasing to Him who still protects us, and gives us flowers and showers and meat and content.
Izaak Walton
#33. It is the natural disposition of all men to listen with pleasure to abuse and slander of their neighbour, and to hear with impatience those who utter praises of themselves.
Demosthenes
#34. A person is bound to lose when he talks about himself; if he belittles himself, he is believed; if he praises himself, he isn't believed.
Michel De Montaigne
#35. A man's inner nature is revealed by what he praises-a man is self-judged by what he says of others. Thus a man is judged by his standards, by what he considers the best. And you can't find a more crucial test. It reveals the soul.
Hugh Black
#36. Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
Henry David Thoreau
#37. What then did you expect when you unbound the gag that muted those black mouths? That they would chant your praises? Did you think that when those heads that our fathers had forcibly bowed down to the ground were raised again, you would find adoration in their eyes?
Jean-Paul Sartre
#38. I broke off from my hummed rendition of "U Can't Touch This.""I'm a seraph," I reminded her happily."I'm supposed to sing constant praises."
"Not about yourself!"
"Doo be do do- demons can't touch this!" I sang again.
Helen Keeble
#39. A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. No matter what happens, don't be sorry you were born. Even though nobody praises us, don't forget to smile in any situation. As long as you're alive there will be better things later ... And there will be many.
- Bellmere.
Eiichiro Oda
#42. O Fame! if I ever took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases, Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover The thought that I was not unworthy to love her.
Lord Byron
#44. God is solitary in His excellency. "Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" (Exo 15:11).
Arthur W. Pink
#46. When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is the same anthem that we as believers will be singing for all eternity.
Laura Story
#47. When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.
Timothy Noah
#48. It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship
Lord Byron
#49. The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise.
Richard Sibbes
#50. The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.
W.S. Gilbert
#51. He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
Honore De Balzac
#52. The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never would have done. -I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath oftener left me mourning.
William Wordsworth
#53. In theory, the idea of eternity in heaven singing God's praises sounds really good, but when I realize I have to go through the death part to get there, I'm not quite so enamored with the idea.
Kim Hunt Harris
#54. Rough work with a soul will always be open to all, including condemnation & reviling, while fine work housing emptiness is closed to all insults & is easily ivied over with paid praises
Richard Flanagan
#55. Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.
John Muir
#56. I find that I spend a tremendous amount of time chasing the praises of men rather than sitting with the praises of God. The former is something I attempt to catch, the latter catches me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#57. Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
Ellen G. White
#58. Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
Karen Armstrong
#59. Certain it is, that as nothing can better do it; so there is nothing greater, for which God made our tongues, next to reciting His praises, than to minister comfort to a weary soul.
Jeremy Taylor
#60. Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread?
Louis Untermeyer
#61. 4Sing the praises of the LORD, you his faithful people; praise his holy name. 5For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.
Anonymous
#63. The Candor sing the praises of the truth, but they never tell you how much it costs.
Veronica Roth
#64. You may wear your virtues as a crown,
As you walk through life serenely,
And grace your simple rustic gown
With a beauty more than queenly.
Though only one for you shall care,
One only speak your praises;
And you never wear in your shining hair,
A richer flower than daisies.
Phoebe Cary
#65. Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind.
Jean Baptiste Massillon
#66. The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and
his own discrimination.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#67. Praise your God in a silent and humbly manner instead of rubbing his back with loud praises while silently committing horrendous acts.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#68. New England clam chowder, made as it should be, is a dish to preach about, to chant praises and sing hymns and burn incense before. [ ... ] It is as American as the Stars and Stripes, as patriotic as the national Anthem. It is Yankee Doodle in a kettle.
Joseph C. Lincoln
#69. Ye monsters of the bubbling deep,
Your Maker's praises spout;
Up from the sands ye codlings peep,
And wag your tails about
Cotton Mather
#70. God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.
John Piper
#71. We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
Nikki Giovanni
#72. Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]
Izaak Walton
#73. If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.
August Bebel
#74. Heroism, or military glory, is much admired by the generality of mankind. They consider it as the most sublime kind of merit. Menof cool reflection are not so sanguine in their praises of it.
David Hume
#75. corporate worship is what happens when the body of Christ assembles to hear with one heart and speak with one voice the words, praises, prayers, petitions, and thanks fitting to Christian worship.
Constance M. Cherry
#77. Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera
or war or fiction.
Sinclair Lewis
#78. The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
Lactantius
#79. Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block.
Nils Kjaer
#80. So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.
Janet Morris
#81. A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read
Mark Twain
#82. The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#83. Is it not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#84. God inhabits the praises of His people. And when the King is present, all things are possible. So
Mike Harland
#86. You from within our glasses, you lusty golden brew, whoever imbibes takes fire from you. The young and the old sing your praises. Here's to beer, here's to cheer, here's to beer.
Bedrich Smetana
#87. If there were no hereafter, I would still prefer to be a Christian, and the humblest Christian minister, to being a king or an emperor, for I am persuaded there are more delights in Christ, yea, more joy in one glimpse of His face than is to be found in all the praises of this harlot- world,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#89. Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
Igor Stravinsky
#90. While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.
Edward Gibbon
#91. Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#93. Everyone calls him Blockhead
No one sings his praises
Or takes him to heart ...
That is the kind of person
I want to be
Kenji Miyazawa
#94. The Lord only praises the person who multiplies what has been given to him.
Sunday Adelaja
#95. Pansies, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises.
William Wordsworth
#96. It is shameful to hate a person who deserves your praises; but how much more shameful it is to hate someone for the very cause that makes him deserve your pity.
Seneca.
#97. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
Pericles
#98. Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I've looked for but nothing that I need? That's because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#100. For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.
Emil Cioran
