Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Fillmore, Charles

Best Quotes about Praise

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. [Ecclesiasticus 15:9]

Bible

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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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 makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

12.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Boileau, Nicholas

23.

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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

25.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Moliere

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

46.

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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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