Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Smith, Dean

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.

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

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Bible

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Moliere

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Rogers, Will

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

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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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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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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 makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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