Motivational Quotes

Praise

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

- James, William

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

James, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Bible

15.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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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

19.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

20.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

22.

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

23.

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

Moliere

24.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

25.

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

26.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

28.

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

Smith, Dean

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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

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Crane, George W.

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

43.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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 belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Felltham, Owen

47.

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 best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

49.

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.

50.

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence