Best Self Praise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.”

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Author:Joyce Rachelle

“Some things sound better if they don't come from you.”

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Author:Joyce Rachelle

“God cannot praise Himself. It is His children who should do so. Unfortunately, some people are preoccupied with self-praise. Be that as it may, God is worthy of all the praise.”

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Book:Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“In praising myself, I only insult myself.”

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Book:Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Self-praise is the first sign of insecurity.”

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Author:Avijeet Das

“I will cast flowers on my own grave before I am dead. And I will tell people how good I were, in case nobody else has the same feeling. Even if you are good in this life, when you are gone, most people think it is a good riddance. So, before I become dust to dust and ashes to ashes, I will light my own light—and not hide it under no bushel. My light will be lit now.”

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Author:Langston Hughes

“I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.”

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Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“Make a decision and then make it right. There just are no wrong decisions. You could go this way, or that way, and either way will eventually get you to where you want to be. But in the moment you start complimenting yourself on the decision you've made, in that moment, you come back into vibrational alignment with who-you-really-are.”

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Author:Esther Hicks

“It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) wielded power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise - easy to come by and satisfying as well. To understand why it is that 'good' men in positions of power will produce evil, while the ordinary man without power but able to engage in voluntary cooperation with his neighbors will produce good, requires analysis and thought, subordinating emotions to the rational.”

“The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.”

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Author:Denis Waitley

“For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.”

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Book:The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)

Source: The City of God, Books I–VII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 8)

“Guard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into the opposite passion to the virtue for which you boast, for man does not accomplish virtue alone, but with the help of God who sees all.”

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Author:Marcus Eremita

“Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.”

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Author:John Madden

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

“You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.”

“Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.”

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Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”

“Self praise is no praise at all.”

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Author:Lord Byron

“Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.”

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Book:The New Dictionary of Thoughts

Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts

“Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.”

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Book:Church Dogmatics Study Edition 20: The Doctrine of Creation III.4 § 55-56

Source: Church Dogmatics Study Edition 20: The Doctrine of Creation III.4 § 55-56

“We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.”

“Should thoughts of self-praise, of self-satisfaction, occur to you, say: 'I myself am nothing; all that is good in me is accomplished by the grace of God.' What hast thou that thou didst not receive?' (I Cor. 4:7). 'Without Me ye can do nothing' (John 15:5).”

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Author:John of Kronstadt

“Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.”

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Author:Arnold Bennett