Praise makes good Men better, and bad Men worse

Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.

Saints in heaven – how could they be anything but fair and pure? No praise to them. But saints in slime – ah, that was the everlasting wonder! That was what made life worth while.

Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God’s sight.

I just continue to do my work with dedication. Really, it’s my listeners who have given me 40 years of bhushana. However, my ultimate probably would be to sing in front of god. That will be something.

He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.

What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture

Americans knock themselves out, especially since 9/11, praising the military.

The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD

Athletics: it’s a wonderful thing, it’s a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it’s incredibly exciting.

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.

Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me.

I love how everybody just brings a different personality to the mix and everyone’s different in their own way. There’s a lot of energy–that’s the vibe of Team USA.

Ride only for yourself and not for the praise of others.

Ride only for yourself and not for the praise of others.

If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray.

Praise the sea, but keep on the land.

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

The man who builds a factory builds a temple, that the man who works there worships there; and to each is due not scorn and blame, but reverence and praise

Don’t discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

That well by reason men it calls may The daisie, or els the eye of the day, The emprise, and floure of floures all.

Ne nevere mo ne lakked hire pite; Tendre-herted, slydynge of corage; But trewely, I kan nat telle hire age.

Classic – a book which people praise and don’t read.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of believing all the hype that’s written about you… Who knows? In a couple of years, you might find me in the loony bin!

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.