Motivational Quotes

Praise

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.

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

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Smith, Dean

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Rogers, Will

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Shakespeare, William

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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