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Praise Quotes

The act of making a positive statement or appreciating others’ work, idea, object etc. is considered to be praise. Praise is said to have a positive effect on a person’s mind and sometimes motivate them to improve or strive harder to surpass the expected standards. Most psychologists believe that a majority of people spend their entire life striving for admiration and positive approval from others. According to a study on human behavioral pattern, it has been found that praise has a positive influence on the mind, and helps build confidence and boost self-esteem. Read these famous praise quotations and sayings, and share it with your family and friends.

Tom Selleck

I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche.

Opportunities
Tom Selleck
Kareena Kapoor Khan

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

Kareena Kapoor Khan
Russell Crowe

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

People Work
Russell Crowe
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

Blame Attention
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cameron Diaz

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

Ability Admiration Appreciation Experience
Cameron Diaz
Norman Vincent Peale

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Criticism Troubles
Norman Vincent Peale
Catherine the Great

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

Blame Wisdom
Catherine the Great
Gerald R. Ford

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

Life Golf
Gerald R. Ford
Catherine the Great

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Blame
Catherine the Great
Soren Kierkegaard

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death.

Christianity Death Easter Life
Soren Kierkegaard
Cameron Diaz

I love Shirley Maclaine. Love that woman.

Love Admiration Advice Affection
Cameron Diaz
Calvin Coolidge

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.

Calvin Coolidge
Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

Friendship Morning
Oliver Wendell Holmes
James M. Barrie

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

Love
James M. Barrie
Billy Graham

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.

Service
Billy Graham
Plutarch

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Blame
Plutarch
Billy Joel

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Billy Joel
Nicole Richie

I am proud that my collections have received such praise, and I am even more proud to share the stage with so many talented designers.

Nicole Richie
Christopher Morley

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Christopher Morley
Saint Augustine

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

Duty
Saint Augustine
Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Prayer
Billy Graham
Pearl S. Buck

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Blame Heart
Pearl S. Buck
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Friendship Sweet
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Samuel Johnson

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

Value Gold Diamonds
Samuel Johnson
Leonardo da Vinci

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Leonardo da Vinci
T. S. Eliot

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Respect
T. S. Eliot
Miguel de Cervantes

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

Discipline
Miguel de Cervantes
Billie Eilish

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I'm cool with the praise. I'm good.

Cool Good Appreciation
Billie Eilish

As a general rule, I do not think it appropriate for judges to heap either praise or censure upon a legislative measure that comes before them, lest it be thought that their validation, invalidation, or interpretation of it is driven by their desire to expand or constrict what they personally approve or disapprove as a matter of policy.

Desire
Antonin Scalia
Lao Tzu

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

Sun
Lao Tzu
Bertrand Russell

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Intelligence
Bertrand Russell
Joseph Addison

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Good Nature Truth
Joseph Addison
Ambrose Bierce

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Power Wealth
Ambrose Bierce
William James

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

Recognition
William James
Eric Hoffer

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Death Living
Eric Hoffer
Marilyn Monroe

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Marilyn Monroe

Sometimes there are imma­ture kids who make jokes about (Hanukkah), but other than that, everyone is really accept­ing

Hanukkah Admiration Appreciation Viewpoint
Anonymous

Come here, I will show you a new way to the Creator: Not through speech, but through song! Let us sing and Heaven will understand us.

Hanukkah Festivity Sharing Singing
Anonymous

The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.

Halloween Admiration Appreciation Past
Anonymous

He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

Passover Penalty / Chastisement Crime Unkindness
Anonymous

A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television.

Baby Grandmother Admiration Appreciation
Anonymous

Angels, roll the rock away; Death, yield up thy mighty prey: See, He rises from the tomb, Glowing with immortal bloom.

Death Easter Angel Prayer
Anonymous

Once more to new creation Awake, and death gainsay, For death is swallowed up of life, And Christ is risen today!

Death Easter Life Admiration
Anonymous

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.

Teacher’s Day Admiration Appreciation Profession
Anonymous