Motivational Quotes

Praise

I've always been a sucker for attention.

- Gooding Jr., Cuba

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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.

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Crane, George W.

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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 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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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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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Moliere

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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 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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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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The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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 man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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