Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Boileau, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Praise

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.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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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 best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

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

Rogers, Will

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Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Phillips, Wendell

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Crane, George W.

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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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 is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Felltham, Owen

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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