Pastoral Resources

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.

There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.