Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Praise

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Smith, Dean

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Trump, Donald

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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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

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

Moliere

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Phillips, Wendell

27.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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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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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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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.