Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Rogers, Will

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 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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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 best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Trump, Donald

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

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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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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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.

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

Felltham, Owen

42.

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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.