Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Sidney, Sir Philip

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

James, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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.

Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 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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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.

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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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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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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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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Moliere