Praise Quotes (649 Quotes)

That's three for the program. It's a compliment to the players. They should get all the credit. It shows their commitment.

There are five prayers and five times of day for prayer the five have five names. Let the first be truthfulness, the second honest living, and the third charity in the Name of God. Let the fourth be good will to all, and the fifth the praise of the Lord.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there, and to each is due, not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise.

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.

Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb?

It is unusual, ... If you're picking on form, they didn't finish in the top six and they have had a lot of injuries. (Gareth) Hock and (Sean) O'Loughlin would have been considered. It may look incredible but I think it's a compliment to the standard of the competition.

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

I like competition. It's a compliment to them. They're good. I can learn from them.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice,
He offers in another's enterprise;
But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see
Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be,
Yet hold I off.

O what their joy and their glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see crowns for the valiant, for weary ones rest God shall be all, and in all ever blest. Truly Jerusalem name we that shore, vision of peace that brings hope evermore wish and fulfillment shall severed be ne'er, nor the thing prayed for come short of the prayer. There, where no trouble distraction can bring, we the sweet anthems of Zion shall sing, while for thy grace, Lord, their voices of praise thy blessed people eternally raise. Now, in the meantime, with hearts raised on high, we for that country must yearn and must sigh, seeking Jerusalem, dear native land, through the long exile on Babylon's strand. Low before him with our praises we fall, of whom, and in whom, and through whom are all of whom, the Father and in whom, the Son through whom, the Spirit, with both ever one.

And Queens hereafter shall be glad to live Upon the alms of thy superfluous praise.

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

True is our Lord and Master He loves the Truth. Nanak offers this true prayer, singing His Glorious Praises, I merge with the True One.

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Sing the Songs of Praise of my Fearless Lord. I am a sacrifice to that Song of Praise which brings eternal peace.

'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room,
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

It is natural to every man to wish for distinction, and the praise of those who can confer honor by their praise, in spite of all false philosophy, is sweet to every human heart but as eminence can be but the lot of a few, patience of obscurity is a

I've been told that I am not big enough, not fast enough. The only thing that people said is that I am a hustle player as if it was a backhanded compliment.

Life ... is a joyful expression of love, praise and thanksgiving instead of a hopeless struggle which eventually ends in death. Giving thanks in every circumstance, we forego the logic and reason which asks, 'Why me' and open our hearts and learn to trust. Every obstacle becomes an occasion for rejoicing. We put love at the center of our universe and we are lifted beyond the world of limitation, doubt, and fear into the realm of love, hope, and eternal happiness.

We got a lot of compliments around the room, ... We make mistakes . . . (but) every day, we try to improve.

Lift up your heads, ye people, lift up your faces, too, open your mouths to sing His praise, and the rain will fall on you.

Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their 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.

I am getting like that, unfortunately. I guess that's a compliment. You have to take things the right way. I was right there.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.

We don't need a lot of cookies on Thursday afternoon before games. No, my background as a coach, we've never liked showering the guys with a lot of praise before the game. I don't know how that helps.

During the game, you hear that garbage, but you know what They're booing me because I stir their emotions. They loved me, and now they hate me because I'm wearing a Yankee jersey. That's actually a huge compliment, because I matter in this game. I matter to those guys. They wouldn't be booing me if I was a nobody.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

I think it's a compliment to the talent that's on our team, ... I don't think talent in and of itself is the reason why you win championships. I don't think that that will determine where we finish. It will be a character and style and chemistry that's developed through a season at LSU that will determine where we finish.

Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

Jerome Bettis has scored 10 touchdowns this year, earning him a 100,000 bonus, But he was stopped for no gain on three runs from the Cleveland 1 in the fourth quarter, the first time he has failed to score this season in short-yardage situations. Before the game, Browns Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown called Bettis aside for a chat. He just told me to keep it up, keep working hard, and he liked my style, ... He said we would talk in the off-season. Whenever the greatest of all-time tells you that, that's a compliment.

Criticism is more effective when it sounds like praise.

HAG, n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like sometimes called, also, a hen, or cat. Old witches, sorceresses, etc., were called hags from the belief that their heads were surrounded by a kind of baleful lumination or nimbus --hag being the popular name of that peculiar electrical light sometimes observed in the hair. At one time hag was not a word of reproach Drayton speaks of a beautiful hag, all smiles, much as Shakespeare said, sweet wench. It would not now be proper to call your sweetheart a hag --that compliment is reserved for the use of her grandchildren.

Most of us, swimming against tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement and we'll make the goal. Say 'Thank you' whenever you think of it. Say 'Nice job' to that workman who put extra effort into his task. Say 'Atta boy' to the fellow who is struggling through in the face of odds. You'll get a whale of a lot of joy out of life that way. And people will love you.

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.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

She seems like she's a quiet little passenger. That might not sound like a compliment, but it is to me. She's doing good.

When we scrimmaged against Glenn and Trinity last week, we didn't do a very good job of executing, ... All this week, we worked hard on the basics. I give all the praise to my offensive line.

I don't really look at myself in that category, but hearing your name mentioned alongside them is something I'm proud I've accomplished, and I take that as a huge compliment.