Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

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

Felltham, Owen

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

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

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

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Boileau, Nicholas

10.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

11.

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

Moliere

12.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

16.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

17.

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

Phillips, Wendell

18.

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

19.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

20.

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

21.

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.

22.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

26.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

27.

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

Trump, Donald

28.

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

29.

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

Kay, Mary

30.

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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

32.

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

33.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

37.

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

38.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

39.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Steele, Sir Richard

42.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Crane, George W.

44.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Einstein, Albert

48.

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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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

50.

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.