#praise

One should use praise to recognize what one is not. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#recognize #should #use

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#bait #modesty #only #praise #sure

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#believe #clearly #clemency #forgive #great

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#assigns #because #enough #feel #few

Praise the bridge that carried you over. ↗

— George Colman

#carried #over #praise #you

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#acquire #admittedly #always #common #common thing

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#amuses #basis #biggest #caribbean #comes

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

— Andre Maurois

#modesty #pass #praise #these #unselfishness

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

— Saskya Pandita

#characteristics #cheered #excellent #excellent man #grieved

Neither blame or praise yourself. ↗

— Plutarch

#neither #praise #yourself