Praise Quotes

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

The praises of enemies are always to be suspected. A man of honor will not permit himself to be flattered by them, except when they are given after the cessation of hostilities.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

A president born in the South had the sensitivity to feel the will of the country, and in an address that will live in history as one of the most passionate pleas for human rights ever made by a president of our nation, he pledged the might of the federal government to cast off the centuries-old blight.

President Johnson rightly praised the courage of the Negro for awakening the conscience of the nation.

Nobody is unhappy when they are praised, even if they know they don't deserve it and even if they don't believe it. The only unhappy people about praise is when that praise is going too much toward somebody else. But everybody likes to be praised because of this real drum major instinct.

If they take half the buildings that they use to praise God and give it to the m*th*rf*ck*rs who need God, we'd be 'aight.

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.

First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

The man who is praised by others is regarded as worthy though he may be really void of all merit. But the man who sings his own praises becomes disgraced though he should be Indra, the possessor of all excellencies.

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and sorrow come and go like the wind. To be happy, rest like a giant tree in the midst of them all

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us.