Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Sidney, Sir Philip

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

Fillmore, Charles

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Crane, George W.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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 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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.

Kay, Mary

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Moliere

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

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

Trump, Donald