Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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.

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

James, William

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

Smith, Dean

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Marden, Orison Swett