Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Smith, Dean

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

Trump, Donald

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Moliere

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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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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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

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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

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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

26.

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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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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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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Peters, Thomas J.

39.

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

40.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Rogers, Will

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