Motivational Quotes

Praise

I've always been a sucker for attention.

- Gooding Jr., Cuba

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Rogers, Will

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Smith, Dean

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Trump, Donald

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Moliere

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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 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

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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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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

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

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent