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

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

Crane, George W.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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 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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Smith, Dean

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

11.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

12.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

17.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Moliere

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Boileau, Nicholas