“Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.”
Alexander Pope
“How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.”
Oscar Wilde
“So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.”
Charles Simmons
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones.”
William Shakespeare
