Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!

Crane, George W.

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

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

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

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

Bible

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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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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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Moliere

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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

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

Trump, Donald

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Felltham, Owen

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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

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Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Plutarch

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

Shakespeare, William

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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A you can do it when things are tough.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Smith, Dean

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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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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.