Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Fillmore, Charles

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Rogers, Will

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

Trump, Donald

18.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Moliere

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Crane, George W.

49.

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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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