Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Jacobsen, Henry

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Trump, Donald

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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 does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Smith, Dean

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Parker, Paul P.

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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.