Motivational Quotes

Praise

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Praise

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.

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

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.

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Kay, Mary

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

Boileau, Nicholas

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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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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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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Smith, Dean

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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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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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

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