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- Nov 07, 2020
Praise Quotes
Recognition, given honestly.
This collection draws a line between flattery and genuine praise, noting how rare it is to offer credit that is both kind and true. More on giving encouragement is in Believe.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: 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.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never made a film to praise or to criticize something. That kind of filmmaking is nothing but propaganda.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are, and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should learn to take genuine pride in a job well done and not expect praise for one simply carried out.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020