Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Praise

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Shakespeare, William

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

11.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

12.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

13.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

14.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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

16.

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Bible

20.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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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

25.

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Trump, Donald

27.

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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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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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Crane, George W.

43.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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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

49.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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