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Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

I don't know that praise is always a good thing.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Usually we praise only to be praised.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.