Motivational Quotes
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.
Best Quotes about Praise
Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Bierce, Ambrose
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Smith, Dean
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
Steele, Sir Richard
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
Shakespeare, William
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
Kipling, Rudyard
I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Trump, Donald
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
Proverb
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
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
Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
Jacobsen, Henry
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
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Bruyere, Jean De La
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
You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.
Parker, Paul P.
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.
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
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
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
James, William
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
Steele, Sir Richard
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Syrus, Publilius
The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Peters, Thomas J.
There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
Moliere
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.
Kay, Mary
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
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
Proverb
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
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Buck, Pearl S.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Peale, Norman Vincent
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Proverb, American
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
Aristotle
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Felltham, Owen
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
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
Fillmore, Charles
If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.
Their silence is praise enough.
Terence
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Boileau, Nicholas
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
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
So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
Rogers, Will
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.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Best of Bits and Pieces
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
Boileau, Nicholas
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Bierce, Ambrose
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
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Marden, Orison Swett
Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. [Ecclesiasticus 15:9]
Bible
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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