Quotes about Praise

I am Loved by the King, and it makes my heart want to sing!

By worshiping God wholeheartedly with our lips and lives, we get to do the greatest thing in the greatest way for the greatest One.

A.C.T.S.—Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication.

Praise your children more than you correct them. Praise them for even their smallest achievement.

Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

Sitting there in the Alabama winter with my mouth full of cold turnip and mud, I could see at least for a moment how if you ever took truly to heart the ultimate goodness and joy of things, even at their bleakest, the need to praise someone or something for it would be so great that you might even have to go out and speak of it to the birds of the air.

To value only what can be sold is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures.

The latter stage is apt to end in cynicism as we wonder what the one who praises really wants.

The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and their mouths full of its praises.

And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can't even meet their own standards.