Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Trump, Donald

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Moliere

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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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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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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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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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 do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

Smith, Dean

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Einstein, Albert

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Crane, George W.