Sentence examples for accept praise from inspiring English sources

If we accept praise, if we really believe the best about ourselves, then we are under an obligation to behave accordingly.

"She was content merely to accept praise for illustrating her husband's work," the historians Robert L. Herbert and Daria D'Arienzo write in "Orra White Hitchcock: An Amherst Woman of Art and Science" (Mead Art Museum).

God give me a restlessness whereby I may neither sleep nor accept praise till my observed results equal my calculated results or in pious glee I discover and assault my error.

After seeing "Mad Hot Ballroom," she loved the idea that the children "learn how to take a bow, learn how to touch each other properly" and "how to give each other praise and accept praise".

The same authors who mope and whine about a negative comment here and there are only too glad to accept praise that is not warranted, kudos they do not deserve.

On the other side of this dynamic were black women who routinely told me: "You have the prettiest skin," a compliment that rendered me uncomfortable because some part of me knew that to accept praise for lighter skin was to reinforce the idea that what I had was more desirable than the darker tones of the women proffering the compliment.

If Imelda Staunton has a problem, it's accepting praise.

She does not stalk the dining room in gleaming whites, glad-handing patrons and accepting praise.

No matter the motivation, it is clear that Watterson is now more comfortable accepting praise for his artistic contributions and wants to be a vibrant part of the cartooning community again.

Tyree accepted praise with humility and on several occasions spoke about working through a "dark time" in his career, which he explained after his speech was an arrest for marijuana possession.

He's a "Midwestern boy who comes from a place where accepting praise and accolades is physically painful and even the hint of confidence in one's talents is sin No. 1," he wrote.