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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
Praise Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Praise

1.
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.

2.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Canetti, Elias

3.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Phillips, Wendell

4.
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

5.
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Ash, Mary Kay

6.
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

7.
You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.
Parker, Paul P.

8.
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
Aristotle

9.
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

10.
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

11.
Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
Jacobsen, Henry

12.
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

13.
Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Bierce, Ambrose

14.
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

15.
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.

16.
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
Kipling, Rudyard

17.
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

18.
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
Sidney, Sir Philip

19.
I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Trump, Donald

20.
There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
Moliere

21.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Best of Bits and Pieces

22.
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
Crane, George W.

23.
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

24.
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Bruyere, Jean De La

25.
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

26.
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

27.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Rogers, Will

28.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Bierce, Ambrose

29.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Peale, Norman Vincent

30.
The best way to get praise is to die.
Proverb, Italian

31.
If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.

32.
The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Peters, Thomas J.

33.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Buck, Pearl S.

34.
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
Rogers, Will

35.
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
Fillmore, Charles

36.
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.

37.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Proverb, American

38.
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
Proverb

39.
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

40.
Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.
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

43.
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Marden, Orison Swett

44.
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.

45.
Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. [Ecclesiasticus 15:9]
Bible

46.
Their silence is praise enough.
Terence

47.
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
Steele, Sir Richard

48.
I've always been a sucker for attention.
Gooding Jr., Cuba

49.
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

50.
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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