Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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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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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Trump, Donald

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rogers, Will

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

Parker, Paul P.

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Bible

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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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