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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Einstein, Albert

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

James, William

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.

Parker, Paul P.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Trump, Donald

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Crane, George W.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Smith, Dean

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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