622 Quotes About Praise

Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God.

It [speaking with words that bring about harmony] consists of speaking of what is good about people, instead of what is wrong with them. For some people this is an almost impossible exercise, for they have become totally habituated to speaking critically. We all seem to have a special talent for finding critical things to say about the world, about others, and about ourselves! (117)

All people, praise the powerful God.

For great is the love of God towards us, His faithfulness is forever sure.

Praise children when they do good, And if they should stumble or fall, Show them how to be humble,Show them how to stand tall

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

There is another type of fiction which we create all the time to glorify ourselves and denounce others. We backbite more and praise less. We project ourselves as smarter than what we actually are and discredit the smartness of others. We cover our follies and believe that we are great, good and virtuous and brand others as evil and vicious.

It is extremely difficult not to fake or overdo something on which you have just been complimented.

We are generally pleased the most by compliments that are insincere.