Praise Quotes

When someone hides something behind a bush and looks for it again in the same place and finds it there as well, there is not much to praise in such seeking and finding. Yet this is how matters stand regarding seeking and finding truth within the realm of reason.

Socrates.- If all goes well, the time will come when one will take up the memorabilia of Socrates rather than the Bible as a guide to morals and reason... Socrates excels the founder of Christianity in being able to be serious cheerfully and in possessing that wisdom full of roguishness that constitutes the finest state of the human soul. And he also possessed the finer intellect.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

No one accuses without an underlying notion of punishment and revenge, even when he accuses his fate or himself. All complaint is accusation, all self-congratulation is praise.

Praise is the 'breath' which gives us life, because it is intimacy with God, an intimacy that grows through daily praise.

I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander.

I care very deeply about the people at Tesla. I feel like I have a great debt to the people of Tesla who are making the company successful.

That's why I find Elon to be an inspiring example. He said, 'Well, what should I really do in this world? Solve cars, global warming, and make humans multi-planetary.' I mean those are pretty compelling goals, and now he has businesses to do that.

I think Melania Trump is going to be a fantastic first lady. She's going to be a tremendous representative of women and of the people. And helping her and working her will be Ivanka Trump, who is a fabulous person and a fabulous, fabulous woman.

Now, obviously, somebody should have been on top of that roof. And there was some problems. But I have to tell you-Secret Service. They were on top of me and they were bullets were flying over us-and there wasn't one of them that said, 'Oh gee, I'm not doing that.'

Boris Johnson's a friend of mine, he's been very, very nice to me, very supportive. I like Boris Johnson, I've always liked him.

We appreciate it [Elon Musk's work on DOGE]. Everybody here, even this side, appreciates it, I believe. They just don't want to admit that.

They say, 'Trump said Putin's smart.' I mean, he's taking over a country for two dollars' worth of sanctions. I'd say that's pretty smart. He's taking over a country - really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, and just walking right in.

Rudy, you did a great job. He's got guts. You know what? He's got guts, unlike a lot of people in the Republican Party. He's got guts. He fights, he fights.