Ralph Waldo Emerson Praise Quotations

Your work should be in praise of what you love.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can, and would fain have the praise of having intended the result which ensues.

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

The house praises the carpenter.

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Blame is safer than praise