Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bible

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

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Boileau, Nicholas

10.

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

Smith, Dean

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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.

15.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Boileau, Nicholas

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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

24.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

27.

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.

Penn, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Fillmore, Charles

32.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

35.

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

James, William

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Crane, George W.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

43.

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

Moliere

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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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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

50.

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.