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Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
- Bible
Praise Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Praise

1.
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Einstein, Albert

2.
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Smith, Dean

3.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Buck, Pearl S.

4.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Phillips, Wendell

5.
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

6.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Canetti, Elias

8.
Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Bierce, Ambrose

9.
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

10.
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

11.
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

12.
Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. [Ecclesiasticus 15:9]
Bible

13.
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
Steele, Sir Richard

14.
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.

15.
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
Crane, George W.

16.
I've always been a sucker for attention.
Gooding Jr., Cuba

17.
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
Kipling, Rudyard

18.
I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Trump, Donald

19.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
James, William

20.
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

21.
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

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.
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

24.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Rogers, Will

25.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.
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

27.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Best of Bits and Pieces

28.
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Ash, Mary Kay

29.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Peale, Norman Vincent

30.
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

31.
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
Shakespeare, William

32.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Proverb, American

33.
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.

34.
So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
Proverb

36.
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Boileau, Nicholas

37.
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

38.
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Marden, Orison Swett

39.
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
Proverb

40.
Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
Boileau, Nicholas

42.
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

43.
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Bruyere, Jean De La

44.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Syrus, Publilius

45.
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

46.
Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
Bible

47.
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.

48.
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

49.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Bierce, Ambrose

50.
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Felltham, Owen


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