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The best way to get praise is to die.
- Proverb, Italian
Praise Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Praise

1.
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
Steele, Sir Richard

2.
Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. [Ecclesiasticus 15:9]
Bible

3.
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

4.
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

5.
Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
Nietzsche, Friedrich

6.
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.

7.
Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
Jacobsen, Henry

8.
I've always been a sucker for attention.
Gooding Jr., Cuba

9.
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

10.
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

11.
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Marden, Orison Swett

12.
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
Proverb

13.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Phillips, Wendell

14.
Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Bierce, Ambrose

15.
If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.

16.
Their silence is praise enough.
Terence

17.
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

18.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
James, William

19.
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

20.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Canetti, Elias

21.
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Bruyere, Jean De La

22.
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

23.
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

24.
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
Steele, Sir Richard

25.
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
Shakespeare, William

26.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Proverb, American

27.
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
Proverb

28.
Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
Bible

29.
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

30.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.
Kay, Mary

31.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Syrus, Publilius

32.
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

33.
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Einstein, Albert

34.
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.

35.
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Smith, Dean

36.
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

37.
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Felltham, Owen

38.
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

39.
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Boileau, Nicholas

40.
The best way to get praise is to die.
Proverb, Italian

41.
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
Kipling, Rudyard

42.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Bierce, Ambrose

43.
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
Aristotle

44.
You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.
Parker, Paul P.

45.
So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.
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

47.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
Rogers, Will

49.
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

50.
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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