#praise

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#praise #right #inspirational

…praise does not make anything better or worse. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#philosophy-of-life #philosophy-of-people #praise #life

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#attention #blame #feelings #follow #i

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest? ↗

— Janet Fitch

#damn #hope #life #live #praise

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#praise #the-purpose-of-life #life

Of 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 Colton

#buried #dead #fame #flowers #future

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat. ↗

— George Crabbe

#admit #all things #eat #friend #house

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#ill #praise #understand #worse #you

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#death #feet #freezes #got #hate

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#praise #process #really #somebody #then