Praise shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
Rabindranath Tagore'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
Mark TwainCensure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.
Winston ChurchillA person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNeither blame or praise yourself.
PlutarchIt is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
Jean PaulOf present fame think little and of future less, the praises that we receive after we are buried like the flowers that are strewed over our grave may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
Charles Caleb ColtonNo attention is paid to the blame or praise that others may give. It does not seek the admiration or the appreciation of the listeners.
Sai BabaHow strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves, but to be themselves praised by posterity by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.
Marcus AureliusEven philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad, in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel KantLet others praise ancient times, I am glad I was born in these.
OvidA refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFew people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAnything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus AureliusFondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Alexander PopeWe praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.
AristotleEulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose BierceIt is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter, yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship.
Lord ByronIt is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.
Thomas FullerI cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich NietzscheGod made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Christopher MorleyNo man deserves to be praised for his goodness who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth or an impotence of will.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
Fyodor DostoevskyNeither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise, to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
AeschylusModesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
Andre MauroisYou do ill if you praise but worse if you censure what you do not understand.
Leonardo da VinciA new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIn praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.
Friedrich NietzscheI will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me.
Joan RiversPraise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
AristotleNot to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers, are the characteristics of an excellent man.
Satchel PaigeIf a man is proud of his wealth he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
SocratesIt is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset MaughamI will praise any man that will praise me.
William ShakespeareWe are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her and admit censorship.
E. M. ForsterUndeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich NietzscheNow God be praised that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William ShakespeareRemember, every song sung in praise of the Lord is a sword that cuts the knots of laziness. It is a fine piece of social service to remind all of their duty to the Almighty who watches over them.
Sai BabaPraise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.
William Shakespeare