Motivational Quotes

Praise

Their silence is praise enough.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Trump, Donald

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

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Crane, George W.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Smith, Dean

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

Rogers, Will

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Fillmore, Charles

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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 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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Phillips, Wendell

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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