Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

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 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

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.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

Smith, Dean

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.

Moliere

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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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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 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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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias