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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.
- Syrus, Publilius
Praise Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Praise

1.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Phillips, Wendell

2.
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

3.
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

4.
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
Crane, George W.

5.
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

6.
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Boileau, Nicholas

7.
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

8.
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
Aristotle

9.
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
Shakespeare, William

10.
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
Steele, Sir Richard

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

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

14.
Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. [Ecclesiasticus 15:9]
Bible

15.
Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
Nietzsche, Friedrich

16.
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
Steele, Sir Richard

17.
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.

18.
Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
Bible

19.
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

20.
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
Proverb

21.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.
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

23.
Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Bierce, Ambrose

24.
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

25.
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
Fillmore, Charles

26.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Proverb, American

27.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Buck, Pearl S.

28.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
James, William

29.
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

30.
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

31.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Rogers, Will

32.
You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.
Parker, Paul P.

33.
So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.
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

35.
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

36.
Their silence is praise enough.
Terence

37.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.
Kay, Mary

38.
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

39.
If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.

40.
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.

41.
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

42.
I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
Rogers, Will

43.
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.

44.
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
Proverb

45.
I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Trump, Donald

46.
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Marden, Orison Swett

47.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Einstein, Albert

49.
The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Peters, Thomas J.

50.
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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