Motivational Quotes

Praise

Their silence is praise enough.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Praise

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.

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

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

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.

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Ash, Mary Kay

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Trump, Donald

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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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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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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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