The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but."

- Henry Ward Beecher

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our powers of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

- Pearl S. Buck

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

- John Wooden