Too Much Praise Quotes

#1. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#2. Never let too much criticism or too much praise get in your way.

Leonard Wolf

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

Bill Jay

#4. Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.

Eric Hoffer

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

Jim George

#6. We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#7. Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me - ever.

Nas

#8. Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.

Homer

#9. In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.

Dada Bhagwan

#10. But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

Arne Jacobsen

#11. The ancient gentleman who has seen the world, who is profoundly experienced, and much too deep to be the dupe of an age so shallow as this, is to be won by an admiring glance at the brilliancy of his knee-buckle; praise his very pigtail, and you may lead him by it.

Samuel Laman Blanchard

#12. Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such,
We scarcely can praise it or blame it too much;
Who, born for the Universe, narrowed his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

Samuel Johnson

#13. The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. If you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm. So I don't think you can mollycoddle your kids too much really.

Richard Branson

#15. Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.

Andrew Jackson

#16. Like attention, praise and porn, salt is one of those instant gratifiers that are easy to get too much of and hard to get by without.

Josh Ozersky

#17. Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

Dorothy Day

#18. Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

Charles De Lint

#19. If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?

Billy Graham

#21. I fear I have praised you too much too soon. Will I lose you in your shame of believing that you can never be what I think you are?

Kate McGahan

#22. 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

#23. Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Anne Bradstreet

#24. I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

Elia Kazan

#25. Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step.

LeBron James

#26. It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.

Conor Oberst

#27. Praise none too much, for all are fickle.

George Herbert