Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Praise

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.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Trump, Donald

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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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 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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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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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Shakespeare, William

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

21.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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 belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Felltham, Owen

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

Crane, George W.

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

28.

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

29.

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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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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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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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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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 praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.

Moliere

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

39.

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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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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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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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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

James, William

44.

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.

45.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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