Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Rogers, Will

10.

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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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

16.

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.

18.

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.

19.

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

Smith, Dean

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

Phillips, Wendell

25.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

26.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.

Kay, Mary

27.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Rogers, Will

45.

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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