Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Smith, Dean

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Rogers, Will

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Moliere

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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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 makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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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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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 man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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.