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

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

Rogers, Will

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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.

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.

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Trump, Donald

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Shakespeare, William

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Phillips, Wendell

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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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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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Smith, Dean

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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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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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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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