Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Phillips, Wendell

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

Bible

So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Smith, Dean

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

Rogers, Will

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.

Kay, Mary

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Trump, Donald

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

Rogers, Will

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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 makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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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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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.