Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Parker, Paul P.

Best Quotes about Praise

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.

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

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Rogers, Will

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Trump, Donald

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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 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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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

Einstein, Albert

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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Rogers, Will

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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 we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Fillmore, Charles

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

34.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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 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 best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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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.