Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Crane, George W.

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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.

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

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

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Moliere

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

Rogers, Will

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Felltham, Owen

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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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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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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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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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 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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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Parker, Paul P.

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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