It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. EssayWizards now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

QuotationsAuthorsTopicsKeywords

Search over 150,000 Quotations & Proverbs
Browse Keywords: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "P" » praise
«There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.»
Author: Mary Kay Ash (businesswoman) | Keywords: praise, recognition, Sex and
«The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey (Actress, Producer) | About: Praise | Keywords: celebrate, celebrates, celebrating, praise
«The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.»
Author: James Matthew Barrie (Dramatist, Novelist) | Keywords: humble, humbler, humbles, humbling, praise, vain
«To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: faults, find out, girl, praise
«The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | Keywords: corruption, escape, go on, praise, working
«Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: blame, causes, exposed, exposes, judgment, pang, pangs, praise, praised, underestimated, undeserved, unjustly
«We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: contempt, glory, inscribe, inspired, keen, keenest, motivated, names, philosophers, praise
«The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: consoled, consoles, consoling, does, doing, ever, For the, gives, praise, stupid, stupider, stupidest
«Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.»
Author: Socrates (Philosopher) | About: Action, Praise, Words | Keywords: faithful, faults, kindlier, kindliest, kindly, praise, reprove, THY
«There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | About: Praise, Wisdom | Keywords: praise, twenties, twenty, wise man
Research our database of over 800,000 top-quality pre-written papers plus 15,000 biographies for only $9.95/month.
Instant Account Activation. Register Now.