Motivational Quotes

Praise

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

- Canetti, Elias

Best Quotes about Praise

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

James, William

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

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

Smith, Dean

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

Bible

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

Trump, Donald

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Kay, Mary

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Felltham, Owen

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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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

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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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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!

Crane, George W.

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

Moliere

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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

25.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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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.

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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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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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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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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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.