Motivational Quotes

Praise

I've always been a sucker for attention.

- Gooding Jr., Cuba

Best Quotes about Praise

There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.

Moliere

If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.

If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

Boileau, Nicholas

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

Fillmore, Charles

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make me feel important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Ash, Mary Kay

I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

Trump, Donald

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

Noonan, Peggy

10.

The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone

Javan

11.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

12.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Penn, William

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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?

Horace

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Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

Jacobsen, Henry

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A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

Yeats, William Butler

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I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Schwab, Charles M.

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Ash, Mary Kay

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I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

Smith, Dean

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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. [Ecclesiasticus 15:9]

Bible

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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

Einstein, Albert

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Bierce, Ambrose

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I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

Steele, Sir Richard

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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Smith, Sydney

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Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.

Kay, Mary

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Phillips, Wendell

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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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Peters, Thomas J.

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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.

Crane, Frank

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Brooks, Phillips

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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Rogers, Will

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It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.