I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I certainly am the first to acknowledge where I don't have strengths, but I think I'm pretty good at acknowledging where I do.
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
I don't know that praise is always a good thing.
Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.
Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.