Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Sidney, Sir Philip

Best Quotes about Praise

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

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Moliere

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.

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

Smith, Dean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Crane, George W.

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Parker, Paul P.

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

19.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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 apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Penn, William

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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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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

25.

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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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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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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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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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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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 makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

45.

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.

46.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Trump, Donald

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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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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.