Self - praise is no recommendation
Proverb
If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise.
Japanese Proverb
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The sweetest sound of all is praise.
Xenophon
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly
Publilius Syrus
Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
Rabindranath Tagore
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck
Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.
J B Priestley
No weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.
Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.
Antisthenes
The advantage of doing ones praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Samuel Butler
In the name of Allah the all-powerful, all-merciful, all-knowing, know that it is by his holy will that we come to free the peoples of the Nile from their immemorial and most cruel bondage to the Turks and the Mamelukes, free men of Frankistan bringing freedom, respecting Islam and the tenets of the holy prophet, may his name be praised and the holy name of Allah most high exalted for ever more.
Anthony Burgess