Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Boileau, Nicholas

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Smith, Dean

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Rogers, Will

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Moliere

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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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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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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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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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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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