Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Felltham, Owen

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Rogers, Will

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Trump, Donald

12.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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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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

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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 the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Smith, Dean

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

32.

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

Moliere

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

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb