Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Boileau, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Crane, George W.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Shakespeare, William

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

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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

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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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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

18.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Trump, Donald

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Moliere

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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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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Fillmore, Charles

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