praise

When you start with thanksgiving, you will always end with praise. Be thankful, it grows.

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Beware ! Discipline goes to two different directions : success and self glory. Self glory is the biggest failure of life.

Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

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

The Qu'ran is God's song, not ours, not even Muhammad's. To allow such a song to pass through one's body, however imperfectly, is to discover that the instrument is transformed by the music.

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. All the praises and thanks be to Allah, the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists). The Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. The Only Owner of the Day of Recompense (i.e. the Day of Resurrection) You (Alone) we worship, and You (Alone) we ask for help. Guide us to the Straight Way... The Way of those on whom You have bestowed Your Grace, not (the way) of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray.(The Qur'an- Surah Al-Fatihah)

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing.

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before you go back and make one single edit, and as if this was not enough, you have instant readers who praise your writing skills!-

Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth.