Motivational Quotes

Praise

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

- James, William

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Kay, Mary

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Bierce, Ambrose

So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Smith, Dean

10.

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

Moliere

11.

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.

12.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Parker, Paul P.

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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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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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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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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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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 know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

Steele, Sir Richard

42.

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

Fillmore, Charles

43.

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

Crane, George W.

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Trump, Donald

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

Rogers, Will

50.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De