Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

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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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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.

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

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.

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.

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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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

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

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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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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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 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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Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

Bible

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If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games.

Bryant, Bear

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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