Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Kipling, Rudyard

Best Quotes about Praise

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

James, William

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

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

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

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, 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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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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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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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Rogers, Will

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

Smith, Dean

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb