Motivational Quotes

Praise

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Rogers, Will

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

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.

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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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Smith, Dean

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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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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 man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

Trump, Donald

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Crane, George W.

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

Shakespeare, William