Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Steele, Sir Richard

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Shakespeare, William

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

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 from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Crane, George W.

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

Trump, Donald

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

Phillips, Wendell

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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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 best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Smith, Dean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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

43.

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb