Praise Quotes

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Rudyard Kipling

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover

I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.

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

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Claudius

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Allen Ginsberg

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
Cleopatra

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
Jane Austen

Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from me to all the world. Amen.
Marianne Williamson

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does.
Eddie Murphy

If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.
Eddie Murphy

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder

I hate it when people call me a teen queen.
Lindsay Lohan

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
Patrick Henry

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read
Gene Simmons

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.
Kofi Annan

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
Seamus Heaney

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.
Diogenes

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.
Elvis Presley

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

I have worshiped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.

I love making music, though. I love playing.
Pharrell Williams

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.
John Howard

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.
Mickey Mantle

The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans.
Steve Nash

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Herbert Spencer

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
J. Lubbock

He is a great gentleman. He is kind of like the teacher and I am the mouth of the golf coaching squad.
Jack Black

I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy.
Alan Jackson

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.
General George S. Patton

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
Edith Piaf

PiAno,piAno' It's not a bloody piano, its a clarenARt...you weird talking person.
Eddie Izzard

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?
Elizabeth II

I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.
Celine Dion

I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.
Eric Clapton