Best praise & needs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore?”

“One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.”

Needs Mind May Long Stills Book Choices Praise Remains Library Wide Celebrate Interviews Companion Acquaintance Something Better Library Books

Book:Table-talk

Source: Table-talk

“Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty.”

Needs Law Perfect Beauty Kindness Praise Modesty Loving Kindness Perfect Beauty

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. (And this person, in the poems, is not the "alienated artist" cut off from everybody who isn't, yum-yum, another alienated artist; he is someone like normal people only more so - a normal person in the less common and more important sense of normal.)”

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Author:Randall Jarrell

“After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' ... In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.”

Needs Giving Persons Real Beautiful Mets Praise Rome Real Person

Author:Margaret Fuller

“Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.”

World Needs Wells War Pay Fiction Praise Shoes Singers Ems Opera Opera Singers Good Shoes

Book:The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

Source: The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

“Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it: feel it, and hate in silence.”

Needs Feels May Hate Felt Silence Fame Praise Breaths Excellence Recognition Envious Conjunctions

Author:Washington Allston

“Capitalism with near-full employment was an impressive spectacle. But a growth in wealth is not at all the same thing as reducing poverty. A universal paean was raised in praise of growth. Growth was going to solve all problems. No need to bother about poverty. Growth will lift up the bottom and poverty will disappear without any need to pay attention to it. The economists, who should have known better, fell in with the same cry.”

Source: Contributions to Modern Economics

“We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.”

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Author:James A. Garfield

“I definitely think we need to lean more on God. And I do think we need to praise, because we need to give it outward. You know, whenever you think you're in tough circumstances, there's always somebody who's in a worse position than you.”

Thinking Knows Needs Giving Position Circumstances Tough Praise

Author:Queen Latifah

“I'd finished the first two [books] and they were going to to be published, and [editor] said, "We need you to write a summary that will drive people to these books." And it took forever. I couldn't think of a thing to say. I looked at the back of other children's books that were full of giddy praise and corny rhetorical questions, you know, "Will she have a better time at summer camp than she thinks?" "How will she escape from the troll's dungeon?" All these terrible, terrible summaries of books, and I just couldn't.”

“But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.”

“Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.”

Needs Giving Praise Hereafter

Author:Richard E. Byrd

“We realized that there's a great need in many churches to use the power of the media...There are a lot of different ways to preach. You can preach by praising. You can preach by preaching sermons. You can preach by just giving someone food when they're hungry. There are people who will never darken a church door but they will come to see a play.”

People Way Needs Giving Different Play Use Church Doors Media Praise Hungry Different Ways Preaching Sermons

Author:Patricia Mauceri

“Thanksgiving is not just a warm, cozy holiday. It's not merely a time of recreation and relaxation and watching football all day. As we give thanks, we need to put our mind, soul and spirit into our thanks and into our praise.”

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Author:Tony Evans

“True joy doth need no song to praise it, silence for love's delight is best.”

Needs Joy Song Silence Praise Delight True Joy

Author:Emanuel Geibel

“The point is not that [Bob] Dylan doesn't need a Nobel to attest to how good he is (although he doesn't.) It's that pop music, pop music of any kind, doesn't need the Nobel committee to damn it with the faint praise of such an award to its sole chosen representative.”

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Author:David Bennun

“I think a lot of women can see themselves in me and a lot of people in general are empowered by seeing someone wear what they want, do what they want, maybe get criticism or get praise, whatever, but still continue to wear and do what they want. I think that a lot of people need that.”

People Thinking Want Needs Stills Seeing Criticism Praise Empowered

Author:Zendaya

“The White House comes out and says it's going to do a major study of the effects on preschool-age children using Ritalin, Prozac and other drugs. I know in advance what the study's going to say. The results are in before they even start. They're going to do a window-dressing control while praising the overall need for the drugs. In the end they're going to try to peddle more drugs than before while making us think they're clamping down; that's my guess.”

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Author:Michael Savage

“There is not a situation in life where there isn't a hymn and a Scripture to meet the need. I'm thankful for the Word of God, and I praise Him for the privilege of still being able to memorize.”

Needs Stills Able Situation Praise Privilege Scripture Word Of God Hymns Situations In Life

Author:Cliff Barrows

“Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.”

Needs Real Interest My Own Waste Praise Real Life Horns

Author:Paul Stanley

“But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.”

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.”

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Author:Clarice Lispector

“However, I have never clogged myself with the praises of pastoral life, nor with nostalgia for an innocent past of perverted acts in pastures. No. One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes—I can’t even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there’s a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It is more important to affirm the least sincere; the clouds get enough attention as it is and even they continue to pass. Do they know what they’re missing? Uh huh.”

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.”

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Author:Nancy Leigh DeMoss

“When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.”

Ifs Needs Feels Helping Remember Faces Turns Sound Silence Doors Arms Gratitude Claims Praise Vain Desperate Your Face Tempted Interruptions Open Arms Grief Observed

Book:A Grief Observed

Source: A Grief Observed

“if they take half the buildings that they use to praise god and give it to the motherfuckers who need god we'd be 'aight”

Ifs Needs Giving Use Half Building Praise Praise God Need God

Author:Tupac Shakur

“beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average”

Knows Men Needs Love Is Return Praise Constant Average Crowds Average Man

Author:Charles Bukowski

“In any society, order is the first need of all. Liberty and justice may be established only after order is tolerably secure. But the libertarians give primacy to an abstract liberty. Conservatives, knowing that "liberty inheres in some sensible object," are aware that true freedom can be found only within the framework of a social order, such as the constitutional order of these United States. In exalting an absolute and indefinable "liberty" at the expense of order, the libertarians imperil the very freedoms they praise.”

Source: Redeeming the Time

“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.”

“One does not structure the church to meet the felt needs and desires of the tares. The purpose of corporate assembly, which has its roots in the Old Testament, is for the people of God to come together corporately to offer their sacrifices of praise and worship to God. So the first rule of worship is that it be designed for believers to worship God in a way that pleases God.”

“Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.”

Men Needs Self Esteem Empty Praise Riches Esteem

Author:Alfred Korzybski

“Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.”

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Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Security Hollywood Praise Loyalty Communist Testing Temperature Editorials

Book:The Letters of E. B. White

Source: The Letters of E. B. White

“They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.”

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Book:President Wilson's Addresses

Source: President Wilson's Addresses

“God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness. It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is useful to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.”

Knows Needs Humans Children Soul Enough Seems Happens Mother Parent Women Virtue Aspect Praise Brave Motherhood Tolerance Flexibility Fortitude God Knows Human Soul Firmness

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“The people who have achieved more than you, in any area, are only a half step ahead of you in time. Bless them and praise their gifts, and bless and praise your own. The world would be less rich without their contributions, and it would be less rich without yours. There's more than room for everyone; in fact, there's a need for everyone.”

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Book:A return to love: reflections on the principles of

Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of

“God needs no worship, no praise, no thanksgiving. It is man himself who needs the benefit to be derived from these activities.”

Men Needs Gratitude Activity Benefits Worship Praise

Book:The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

“For awareness you need not go to the Himalayas; you need not go anywhere. Your life gives you enough opportunities to be aware. Somebody insults you - listen to it in full awareness. And you will be surprised - the insult is no more an insult. You may even smile. It does not hurt; it hurts only when received in unawareness. Somebody praises and appreciates you - listen with alertness. And then nobody can persuade you to do foolish things. Nobody can bribe you; flattery becomes impossible. You will smile at the whole nonsense.”

“Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.”

Ifs Needs Self Self Esteem Judging Criticism Encouragement Praise Slave Esteem Low Self Esteem Dependency Self Criticism Gestalt Need Encouragement Criticism And Praise

Author:Frederick Salomon Perls

“Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.”

Knows Needs Remember Easy Deserve Praise Appreciation Access Easy Access

Author:Barbara Sher

“There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you.”

Needs Helping Form Evil Doors Objects Positive Arms Listening Sorrow Goodness Glory Weak Praise Asking Blind Charity Legs Harm Deaf Deities Glory Of God Hurrying Asking For Help Leading The Blind

Author:Muhammad

“Daily simple, sincere, and mighty prayers lift our lives to a higher spiritual altitude. In our prayers we praise God, give thanks to Him, confess weaknesses, petition needs, and express deep devotion to our Heavenly Father. As we make this spiritual effort in the name of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, we are endowed with increased inspiration, revelation, and righteousness, which bring the brightness of heaven into our lives.”

“Like the shepherds of old, we need to say in our hearts, “Let us see this thing which is come to pass.” We need to desire it in our hearts. Let us see the Holy One of Israel in the manger, in the temple, on the mount, and on the cross. Like the shepherds, let us glorify and praise God for these tidings of great joy!”

Needs Heart Joy Desire Holy Crosses Praise Israel Temples Shepherds Glorify Great Joy Praise God Tidings

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, we’re in fact not loving people as much as we’re using them to fulfill our need to belong, be liked, and be desired. This explains why some friends and family members can be so demanding, smothering, and needy. It also explains why we’re so easily inflated by praise and deflated by criticism. It’s as if others have the ability to determine our identity for that day based on a word or even a glance”

Source: Who Do You Think You Are?: Finding Your True Identity in Christ

“The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ. No less than His contemporaries in Palestine adored and implored Him for the favors they needed, so we should praise, thank Him, and implore Him for what we need.”

Needs Should Jesus Christ Seeing Keys Needed Worship Mass Jesus Christ Praise Favors Palestine Eucharist Eucharistic

Author:Pope Pius XII

“Compliments and praise, for their part, are tragic expressions of fulfilled needs”

Needs Expression Communication Praise Tragic Compliment Fulfilled Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“We live by faith; but Faith is not the slave Of text and legend. Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save Justice and mercy and humility, A reasonable service of good deeds, Pure living, tenderness to human needs, Reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see The Master's footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, But the calm beauty of an ordered life Whose very breathing is unworded praise! - A life that stands as all true lives have stood Firm-rooted in the faith that God is Good.”

Source: Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier

“Although God certainly knows all our needs, praying for them changes our attitude from complaint to praise and enables us to participate in God’s personal plan for our lives.”

Knows Needs Attitude Our Lives Plans Praying Praise Complaints

Author:Ray Stedman

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