Pastoral Resources

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

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.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

To the house of a friend if you're pleased to retire, You must all things admit, you must all things admire; You must pay with observance the price of your treat, You must eat what is praised, and must praise what you eat.

Sun Tzu does not need my praise. His work has lived for over two thousand years, and will surely live for another two thousand without any help from me.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

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

There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.