Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Marden, Orison Swett

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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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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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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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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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Moliere

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Rogers, Will

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Crane, George W.

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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