Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John Keats | Criticism
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
Praise, Motivation – Edmund Burke
Praised be God for all sides of life, for friends, lovers, art, literature, knowledge, humour, politics, and for the little red cloud away there in the west.
G.K. Chesterton – Praise
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Samuel Johnson – Praise
I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
Goethe – Praise
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.
Cicero – Praise, Desire
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.
