Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Trump, Donald

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

Rogers, Will

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Parker, Paul P.

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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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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 invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Trump, Donald

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Felltham, Owen

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Shakespeare, William

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Smith, Dean

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Peters, Thomas J.