Praise

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

- Albert Einstein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

- Hippocrates Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation the spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.

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He is a fool that praises himself and a madman that speaks ill of himself.

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I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on THIS HOUSE, and on All that shall hereafter Inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof President Franklin D. Roosevelt had this lettered in gold in the marble over the fireplace in the State Dining Room of the White House. The quotation above follows the capitalization used in the inscription.

- John Adams Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

After this manner therefore pray ye Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.

- The Bible Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

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Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

- Oliver Goldsmith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward.

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I pray for wisdom, am answered with a study guide. I pray for strength, am answered with an exercise routine. I pray for courage, am answered with a call to commitment. I pray for generalities, am answered with specifics.

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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't.

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

- James Boswell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John The Bed be blest that I lie on. Four angels to my bed, Four angels round my head, One to watch, and one to pray, And two to bear my soul away.

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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.

- Rudyard Kipling Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

- Nicholas Boileau Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Praise the sea on shore remain.

- John Florio Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

- Heinrich Heine Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

- George Bernard Shaw Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words, than words without a heart.

- John Bunyan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.

- Rabindranath Tagore Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

- Jonathan Swift Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

- Kahlil Gibran Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

- William Shakespeare Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes