#praise

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#high #literature #our #person #praise

It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do. ↗

— Daisy Fuentes

#business #easily #know #matter #nasty

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#acquire #admittedly #always #common #common thing

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#amuses #basis #biggest #caribbean #comes

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#modesty #pass #praise #these #unselfishness

Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together. ↗

— Mary Ann Mobley

#could #doctors #hand #help #i

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket. ↗

— Moliere

#pocket #praise #put #sort #you

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#efforts #encourage #endeavor #others #own

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. ↗

— William Penn

#deserve #love #more #must #praise

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#himself #his #making #man #many