quotations about praise
The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart:
The proud to gain it toils on toils endure,
The modest shun it, but to make it sure.
EDWARD YOUNG
Love of Fame: The Universal Passion in Seven Characteristical Satires
Every man likes his own praise best.
DANISH PROVERB
I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.
NOEL COWARD
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The love of praise is the beginning of forfeiture.
ARAB PROVERB
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cato
PRAISE is the reflection of virtue; but it is as the glass or body, which giveth the reflection. If it be from the common people, it is commonly false and naught; and rather followeth vain persons, than virtuous. For the common people understand not many excellent virtues. The lowest virtues draw praise from them; the middle virtues work in them astonishment or admiration; but of the highest virtues, they have no sense of perceiving at all. But shows, and species virtutibus similes, serve best with them. Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty and solid. But if persons of quality and judgment concur, then it is (as the Scripture saith) nomen bonum instar unguenti fragrantis. It fireth all round about, and will not easily away. For the odors of ointments are more durable, than those of flowers.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Praise", Essays, or Counsels Civil and Moral
A puff of wind and popular praise weigh alike.
HUNGARIAN PROVERB