Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

Steele, Sir Richard

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

11.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

22.

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Moliere

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Parker, Paul P.

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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 does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Fillmore, Charles

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