Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Smith, Dean

Best Quotes about Praise

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Trump, Donald

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Crane, George W.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Moliere

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Felltham, Owen