Praised Quotes

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.
William Shakespeare

God, Light, Darkness

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time, God, Cannot

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Power, Blame, Reason

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Socrates

Proud, Until, Wealth

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

Men, Mistakes, Wish

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
Mitt Romney

Learning, Sports, Start

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Bertrand Russell

Love, Sure, Fall

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams

Heart, Desire, Beloved

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Desire, Praise, Twice

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Power, Nothing, Goodness

Usually we praise only to be praised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Time, Desire, Second

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Others, Ourselves, Order

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
William Butler Yeats

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
Charles Caleb Colton

Best, Two, Honest

All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
Oliver Goldsmith

Husband, Wife, Wants

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

Fool, Proud, Making

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
John Cleese

God, Powerful, Father

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Billy Joel

Sometimes, Both, Criticism

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
Patrick Gordon

Life, Time, Good

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.
Miriam Makeba

Important, Listen, Encouraged

Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
Lenny Kravitz

Actually, Stuff, Beatles

'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.
Rob Sheffield

Life, Boring, Bored

I have done everything I have ever wanted to do. I have swum with tiger sharks, been charged by lions and elephants. I have been shot three times, chased by crocodiles and, God be praised, I've made enough money that I can continue to do all the things I want to for as long as I am able.
Wilbur Smith

Money, God, Long

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
Leo Rosten

Him, Different, Others

If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions.
Oliver Stone

Great, Somebody, Questions

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
Fiona Shaw

Bad, Sometimes, Theatre

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Women, Quality, Liked

George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said he was unfit. They said he has terrible judgment, and that's his record as a senator. Nobody questioned his military record.
Peter King

War, Said, Military

Human rights are praised more than ever - and violated as much as ever.
Anna Lindh

Human, Rights, Violated

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