Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Rogers, Will

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Bible

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Felltham, Owen

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

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.

11.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

19.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Trump, Donald

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Crane, George W.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

32.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

33.

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

Moliere

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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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

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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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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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