#praise

…praise does not make anything better or worse. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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

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

A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#gives #judgment #more #negative #praise

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#blame #freeze #heart #much #out

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

An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#first #heart #his #piece #praise

Even 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 Kant

#begets #ennobling #even #evil #forgetting

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. ↗

— John Keats

#beauty #blame #critic #effect #him

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#ever #fleas #his #praised

In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety. ↗

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

#anxiety #birds #earth #everyday #everyday life