Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.

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

11.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Parker, Paul P.

13.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

18.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Felltham, Owen

22.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

26.

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

Crane, George W.

27.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Moliere

33.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

40.

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

Bible

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Ash, Mary Kay