Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Bible

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

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Crane, George W.

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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 does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Smith, Dean

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

Parker, Paul P.

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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