Best Quotes about Praise
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
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Canetti, Elias
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Bruyere, Jean De La
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Phillips, Wendell
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
Shakespeare, William
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Einstein, Albert
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
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.
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
Aristotle
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Felltham, Owen
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Proverb, American
So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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
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.
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
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
You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.
Parker, Paul P.
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
Steele, Sir Richard
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Ash, Mary Kay
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
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
Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Bierce, Ambrose
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
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
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
Fillmore, Charles
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
Proverb
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
James, William
Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
Bible
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
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
Steele, Sir Richard
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
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Buck, Pearl S.
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
Rogers, Will
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.
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
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.
Kay, Mary
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
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
Sidney, Sir Philip
Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
Jacobsen, Henry
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
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Best of Bits and Pieces
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Smith, Dean
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
Proverb
If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.
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.
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
Boileau, Nicholas
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
Their silence is praise enough.
Terence
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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