Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Crane, George W.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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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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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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