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Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
- Boileau, Nicholas
Praise Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Praise

1.
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.

2.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Bierce, Ambrose

3.
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Boileau, Nicholas

4.
I've always been a sucker for attention.
Gooding Jr., Cuba

5.
You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.
Parker, Paul P.

6.
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.

7.
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Einstein, Albert

8.
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
Steele, Sir Richard

9.
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
Crane, George W.

10.
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.

11.
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
Shakespeare, William

12.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
James, William

13.
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

14.
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

15.
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

16.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Best of Bits and Pieces

17.
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

18.
So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

19.
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
Fillmore, Charles

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

22.
If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.

23.
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Ash, Mary Kay

24.
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

25.
Their silence is praise enough.
Terence

26.
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

27.
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

28.
Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
Bible

29.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Phillips, Wendell

30.
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
Boileau, Nicholas

31.
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Smith, Dean

32.
Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
Syrus, Publilius

33.
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
Sidney, Sir Philip

34.
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

35.
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

36.
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
Kipling, Rudyard

37.
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
Proverb

38.
I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Trump, Donald

39.
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

40.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Canetti, Elias

41.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.
Kay, Mary

42.
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
Aristotle

43.
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

44.
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

45.
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.

46.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

47.
Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
Jacobsen, Henry

48.
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

49.
There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
Moliere

50.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Rogers, Will


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