Motivational Quotes

Praise

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Praise

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Buck, Pearl S.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

James, William

When life seems just a dreary grind; and things seem fated to annoy; say something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy.

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

Smith, Dean

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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

Steele, Sir Richard

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There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.

Shakespeare, William

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If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.

Bryant, Bear

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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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

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

Trump, Donald

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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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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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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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So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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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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I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.

Howells, William Dean

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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