The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
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.
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.