Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Praise

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

James, William

So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Boileau, Nicholas

11.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

12.

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

13.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Steele, Sir Richard

17.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Smith, Dean

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Shakespeare, William

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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Moliere

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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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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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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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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Rogers, Will

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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've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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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