Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Smith, Dean

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

Bible

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

Kipling, Rudyard

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Rogers, Will

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

18.

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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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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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Moliere

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Trump, Donald

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

James, William

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

Crane, George W.

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

Smith, Dean

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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Einstein, Albert

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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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