Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Felltham, Owen

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Trump, Donald

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

Jacobsen, Henry

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

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.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Parker, Paul P.

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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 invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

19.

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bible

39.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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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 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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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.

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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

47.

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

48.

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

Smith, Dean

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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