Praise Quotes - Page 3

he reminded himself as he turned another corner — glancing automatically into the shadows to see if anyone lurked there — the deed was the thing, not the praise.

Raymond E. Feist

Praise is the most efficient tool to win many battles at once. It is through praise that the walls of Jericho collapsed, the same way Paul and Silas praised their way out of jail.

Gugu Mona

Oh-my-Father-and-oh-the-delight-of-my-eyes," began the young man, muttering the words very quickly and sulkily and not at all as if the Tisroc were the delight of his eyes.

If a stranger saying we are "dependable" activates the reward system, imagine what praise from a boss, a parent, or even an unaccomplished slightly older graduate student will do. Of course, we all know that praise is a good thing, as long as it isn't too unconditional, but until very recently, we had no idea that praise taps into the same reinforcement system in the brain that enables cheese to help rats learn to solve mazes. And positive social regard is a renewable resource. Rather than having less of something after using it, when we let others know we value them, both parties have more.

Matthew D Lieberman

Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised.

Marcus Aurelius

Excellent is prasie worthy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Being thankful for the things we take for granted, is worth taking pause to understand that they can be taken away within a moment.

Ellen Jean Barrier

Praise, my dear one.Let us disappear into praising.Nothing belongs to us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

praise Him in whatever stormsHe is the one who gives and who takes back. That's why you are what you are by His amazing grace. The storms of your life are just there to strengthen you and to give you more insights of what He wants to teach you. Never give up beloved one, The Lord Jesus-Christ is ever present for you. Victorious people never give up, remember He never gave up on you, He went till Calvary for your sake and He was proud to die for you and I. That's why you should really give yourself away to Him who loves you to the deepest of your soul! Shalom God bless you.

Jean Faustin Louembe

Praise is the portal to the presence of God.

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

Waheed Ibne Musa

In the third place he comes on to the chiefe Organ, that is, the instrument wherewith they should sing. It is not with the Organs of the Papists, no not with thy tongue; but it is with the heart, and with the affection of a well-ruled heart. Therefore as a fiddler, or any that playes on an Instrument tempers his Instrument, that a sweete harmonie may be heard of it: Even so before thou sing, temper thou thy heart; and let thy song rise, not from thy throte, but from the depth of thine heart, that is from thine affections set upon God.

Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise.

Testing time is the time for an increase in praise.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

I've read your summary.""And?""It's not incompetent."Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Plutarch

I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

Louisa May Alcott

And if I please you so, my lover,Remember praise is comely.

The time of persecution and problems is the time to thank and praise God

However much I doubted the man's ability to accomplish the task he had set himself, I could not help admiring his faith and his industry.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Lord only praises the person who multiplies what has been given to him.

Nothing about me is "deep", but my divine creator is so.

Those who praise God abide in victory.

God has prepared our victory for us, if only we will praise Him in all circumstances

Praise first the mighty blessing of yourself!

Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.

William Arthur Ward

You need to know the truth to be able to praise God

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone appreciates being appreciated.

Lance Greenfield

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord

Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi,Canticle of the Sun

Francis of Assisi

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

William Shakespeare

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

Thomas à Kempis

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Nobody will ever tell you who praised you but everybody would want to be the first to tell you who criticized you.

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

Shout praise and whisper criticism.

Don Meyer

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

Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.

José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.

Claude Louis Berthollet

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

Thomas Jefferson

There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

He [Alexander von Humboldt] was to science what Shakespeare was to the drama.

Robert G. Ingersoll

I don’t know how to talk to you, Mrs. Huntingdon . . . you are only half a woman--your nature must be half human, half angelic. Such goodness overawes me; I don’t know what to make of it.

Sing to your mountains because as you sing, they are being cast into the sea.As you sing, the portals of heaven are opening.

Sherry K. White

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

You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we spend more time praising and thanking God for His daily benefits and blessing and all the good things He bestows, there wouldn't be time to blame, complain. cry and moan over the bad things.

Nature, ... in order to carry out the marvelous operations [that occur] in animals and plants has been pleased to construct their organized bodies with a very large number of machines, which are of necessity made up of extremely minute parts so shaped and situated as to form a marvelous organ, the structure and composition of which are usually invisible to the naked eye without the aid of a microscope. ... Just as Nature deserves praise and admiration for making machines so small, so too the physician who observes them to the best of his ability is worthy of praise, not blame, for he must also correct and repair these machines as well as he can every time they get out of order.

Marcello Malpighi

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Place your faith not in the frailness of "Man" but in the power and glory of the creator and observe what happens next......

Donavan Nelson Butler

You can always tell when someone deserves the praise and recognition they receive, because it humbles them rather than inflating their ego.

Ashly Lorenzana

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