praise

• encouragement by judicious

139:1.10An­drew was a man of clear in­sight, log­i­cal thought, and firm de­ci­sion, whose great strength of char­ac­ter con­sisted in his su­perb sta­bil­ity. His tem­per­a­men­tal hand­i­cap was his lack of en­thu­si­asm; he many times failed to en­cour­age his as­so­ciates by ju­di­cious com­men­da­tion. And this ret­i­cence to praise the wor­thy ac­com­plish­ments of his friends grew out of his ab­hor­rence of flat­tery and in­sin­cer­ity. An­drew was one of those all-round, even-tem­pered, self-made, and suc­cess­ful men of mod­est af­fairs.

• Jesus uninfluenced by

141:7.12The apos­tles were be­gin­ning to rec­og­nize the un­af­fected friend­li­ness of Je­sus. Though the Mas­ter was easy of ap­proach, he al­ways lived in­de­pen­dent of, and above, all hu­man be­ings. Not for one mo­ment was he ever dom­i­nated by any purely mor­tal in­flu­ence or sub­ject to frail hu­man judg­ment. He paid no at­ten­tion to pub­lic opin­ion, and he was un­in­flu­enced by praise. He sel­dom paused to cor­rect mis­un­der­stand­ings or to re­sent mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion. He never asked any man for ad­vice; he never made re­quests for prayers.

• seek only what belongs to you

156:5.19Avoid dis­hon­esty and un­fair­ness in all your ef­forts to preach truth and pro­claim the gospel. Seek no un­earned rec­og­ni­tion and crave no un­de­served sym­pa­thy. Love, freely re­ceive from both di­vine and hu­man sources re­gard­less of your deserts, and love freely in re­turn. But in all other things re­lated to honor and adu­la­tion seek only that which hon­estly be­longs to you.