Motivational Quotes

Praise

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Bierce, Ambrose

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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.

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.

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Felltham, Owen

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

Rogers, Will

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Moliere

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Crane, George W.

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Smith, Dean

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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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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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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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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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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A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.