Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise
Robert Martin
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand Russell
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
Noel Coward
Those blessed with the karma of good actions praise the Lord. O Nanak, they make the Guru their spiritual teacher. In the fourth watch of the early morning hours, a longing arises in their higher consciousness. They are attuned to the river of life; the True Name is in their minds and on their lips.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.
Sir James Mackintosh
Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
Jean de la Bruyere
Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.
David Hume
Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.
Owen Felltham
The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us.
Benjamin Disraeli
A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
Aristotle
Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all
Johann Lavater
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Alexander Pope