The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
Sir Bernard Rowland Crick
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.
Lady Marguerite Blessington
No weapon that slays Its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.
Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.
Charles Simmons
Tear down skepticism and dispel your doubt; with your intuition, draw the bow of the Praise of the Lord.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is.
Wendell Berry
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Lord Chesterfield
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Albert Einstein
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
Phyllis McGinley
Praise a large domain, cultivate a small estate.
Virgil
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Pietro Aretino
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart