Motivational Quotes

Praise

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Felltham, Owen

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rogers, Will

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Bible

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Moliere

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

Crane, George W.

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

Parker, Paul P.

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

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 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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

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