Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Smith, Dean

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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.

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

James, William

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rogers, Will

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.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Parker, Paul P.

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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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 the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Moliere

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Boileau, Nicholas