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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
- Proverb
Praise Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Praise

1.
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
Proverb

2.
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

3.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Phillips, Wendell

4.
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
Kipling, Rudyard

5.
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

6.
Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
Jacobsen, Henry

7.
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

8.
I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Trump, Donald

9.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Peale, Norman Vincent

10.
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

11.
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

12.
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
Steele, Sir Richard

13.
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
Boileau, Nicholas

14.
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.

15.
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.
Sidney, Sir Philip

16.
So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.
Their silence is praise enough.
Terence

18.
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

19.
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Ash, Mary Kay

20.
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

21.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Buck, Pearl S.

22.
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

23.
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
Fillmore, Charles

24.
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

25.
The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Peters, Thomas J.

26.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Best of Bits and Pieces

27.
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Bruyere, Jean De La

28.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
Proverb

30.
There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
Moliere

31.
Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. [Ecclesiasticus 15:9]
Bible

32.
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Smith, Dean

33.
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Marden, Orison Swett

34.
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
Rogers, Will

35.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Einstein, Albert

37.
Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
Bible

38.
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

39.
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

40.
I've always been a sucker for attention.
Gooding Jr., Cuba

41.
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
Shakespeare, William

42.
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
Crane, George W.

43.
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

44.
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

45.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Bierce, Ambrose

46.
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

47.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
James, William

48.
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Felltham, Owen

49.
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

50.
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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