Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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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 does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Smith, Dean

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

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Moliere

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.