Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Praise

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Crane, George W.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Rogers, Will

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Parker, Paul P.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

12.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

21.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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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 makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.