Self Praise Quotes

Self praise is no praise at all.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.

It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) wielded power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise - easy to come by and satisfying as well. To understand why it is that 'good' men in positions of power will produce evil, while the ordinary man without power but able to engage in voluntary cooperation with his neighbors will produce good, requires analysis and thought, subordinating emotions to the rational.

Make a decision and then make it right. There just are no wrong decisions. You could go this way, or that way, and either way will eventually get you to where you want to be. But in the moment you start complimenting yourself on the decision you've made, in that moment, you come back into vibrational alignment with who-you-really-are.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

Should thoughts of self-praise, of self-satisfaction, occur to you, say: 'I myself am nothing; all that is good in me is accomplished by the grace of God.' What hast thou that thou didst not receive?' (I Cor. 4:7). 'Without Me ye can do nothing' (John 15:5).

Guard your mind from self-praise and flee a high opinion of yourself, so that God does not allow you to fall into the opposite passion to the virtue for which you boast, for man does not accomplish virtue alone, but with the help of God who sees all.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.