Praise The Young And They Will Flourish.
- Irish proverb
I Pay No Attention Whatever To Anybody’s Praise Or Blame. I Simply Follow My Own Feelings.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
If A Man Is Proud Of His Wealth, He Should Not Be Praised Until It Is Known How He Employs It.
- Socrates
He Who Praises You For What You Lack Wishes To Take From You What You Have.
- Don Juan Manuel
Such Praise Coming From So Degraded A Source, Was Degrading To Me, Its Recipient.
- Cicero
The Meanest, Most Contemptible Kind Of Praise Is That Which First Speaks Well Of A Man, And Then Qualifies It With A But.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There Are Two Modes Of Establishing Our Reputation: To Be Praised By Honest Men, And To Be Abused By Rogues. It Is Best, However, To Secure The Former, Because It Will Invariably Be Accompanied By The Latter.
- Charles Caleb Colton
It Is A Sign Of A Creeping Inner Death When We No Longer Can Praise The Living.
- Eric Hoffer
Praise, Like Gold And Diamonds, Owes Its Value Only To Its Scarcity.
- Samuel Johnson
Their Silence Is Sufficient Praise.
- Terence
Be Not Too Hasty Either With Praise Or Blame; Speak Always As Though You Were Giving Evidence Before The Judgement-Seat Of The Gods.
- Seneca
Don’t Discuss Yourself, For You Are Bound To Lose; If You Belittle Yourself, You Are Believed; If You Praise Yourself, You Are Disbelieved.
- Michel de Montaigne
Praise From The Common People Is Generally False, And Rather Follows The Vain Than The Virtuous.
- Sir Francis Bacon
I Do Not Confer Praise Or Blame: I Accept. I Am The Measure Of All Things. I Am The Centre Of The World.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Real Joy Comes Not From Ease Or Riches Or From The Praise Of Men, But From Doing Something Worthwhile.
- Sir Wilfred Grenfell
The Praise That Comes From Love Does Not Make Us Vain, But More Humble.
- James M. Barrie
We Are Always More Anxious To Be Distinguished For A Talent Which We Do Not Possess, Than To Be Praised For The Fifteen Which We Do Possess.
- Mark Twain
Think Not Those Faithful Who Praise All Thy Words And Actions; But Those Who Kindly Reprove Thy Faults.
You Do Ill If You Praise, But Worse If You Censure, What You Do Not Understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Be Thou The First True Merit To Befriend, His Praise Is Lost Who Stays Till All Commend.
- Alexander Pope
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