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“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.”
Wilfred Grenfell
“To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.”
Will Durant
“Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.”
Bruce Lee
“It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Praise the ripe field not the green corn”
Irish Sayings
“Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.”
Mary Kay Ash
“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
T.S. Eliot
“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
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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