Praise Quotes

Youth is like spring, an over-praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits. - Samuel Butler

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say. - Lord Melbourne

Your advice, your praise, was so very, very f****d. - Chuck Palahniuk

Your actions define you, your mistakes appraise you, and your choices can kill you. - Damon Salvatore

You Yourself created the counterfeit and the genuine. You Yourself appraise all people. You appraise the true, and place them in Your Treasury; You consign the false to wander in delusion. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

You test gold in a furnace and silver with a crucible, but you test man with praise. - Dick Bennett

You pray for the best ... luckily, praise the Lord, the best did happen. He came through. He's recovered. I think he is going to be perfectly fine. I think we were blessed in that situation. - Michael Boulware

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank. - Bobby Jones

You may have huge hordes of men in the army; but they are useful only when the few Generals who lead them know where they are and whether they should proceed and how to overcome the enemy, whose strength and weakness they have comprehended. Hordes of people sing, recite, adore, worship, praise and prostrate, but these are the soldiers. - Atharva Veda

You have to praise their sense of realism, that they'll never get to a 25 percent share again. They have got to do this to survive. - David Healy