Virtue is praised and freezes. [ Juvenal ]

Good things should be praised. [ Shakespeare ]

Counsel must be followed, not praised. [ Proverb ]

God be praised, we have still the original. [ Lessing ]

Now God be praised, that to believing souls,
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair! [ William Shakespeare ]

Virtue is praised by all; but practiced by few. [ Proverb ]

For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]

Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel.
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]

The refusal of praise is only the wish to be praised twice. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Those are praised most, that are praised without any interest. [ Proverb ]

A man - be the heavens ever praised! - is sufficient for himself. [ Carlyle ]

When a proud man hears another praised, he thinks himself injured. [ Proverb ]

It is a great happiness to be praised of them that are most praiseworthy. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

None can be pleased without praise, and few can be praised without falsehood. [ Dr. Johnson ]

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended. [ Euripides ]

Nothing can be so injurious to progress as to be altogether blamed or altogether praised. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise. [ From the Latin ]

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. [ Bible ]

Greece, so much praised for her wisdom, never produced but seven wise men: judge of the number of fools! [ Grecourt ]

That which we truly call honourable is praiseworthy in its own nature, even though it should be praised by no one. [ Cicero ]

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned. [ Johnson ]

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it. [ La Bruyere ]

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can. [ Colton ]

There are two modes of establishing our reputation - to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will be invariably accompanied by the latter. [ Colton ]

There are two ways of establishing your reputation, - to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will be invariably accompanied by the latter. [ Colton ]

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and aminated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy. [ Quintilian ]