Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Einstein, Albert

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

Rogers, Will

10.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

11.

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Trump, Donald

20.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

25.

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

Moliere

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Fillmore, Charles

43.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Bible

47.

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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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias