#praise

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it. ↗

— Alex Haley

#find #good #i #i tried #much

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#blessing #comes #great #here #him

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#game #genial #plays #pleasing #praise

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.

#days #friend #greeting #his #homage

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#endeavor #envy #get #give #hard

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#endeavor #follies #god #him #like

Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever. ↗

— Albert Barnes

#employment #ever #great #now #praise

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#bait #modesty #only #praise #sure

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#complete #delivers #friends #hands #i

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks! ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beyond #colour #delicacy #equally #lovely