Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Boileau, Nicholas

Best Quotes about Praise

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

James, William

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Felltham, Owen

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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've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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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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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.

19.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Smith, Dean

24.

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 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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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.

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Moliere

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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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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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.

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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