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Their silence is praise enough.
- Terence
Praise Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Praise

1.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Proverb, American

2.
The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Peters, Thomas J.

3.
The best way to get praise is to die.
Proverb, Italian

4.
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.

5.
Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Bierce, Ambrose

6.
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.
Kay, Mary

7.
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

8.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

9.
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Rogers, Will

10.
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

11.
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
Kipling, Rudyard

12.
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

13.
What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
James, William

14.
People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
Proverb

15.
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

16.
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
Ash, Mary Kay

17.
Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?
Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
Fillmore, Charles

19.
Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
Phillips, Wendell

20.
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
Steele, Sir Richard

21.
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
Proverb

22.
So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Felltham, Owen

24.
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.

25.
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

26.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Buck, Pearl S.

27.
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

28.
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Peale, Norman Vincent

29.
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Marden, Orison Swett

30.
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
Crane, George W.

31.
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

32.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Best of Bits and Pieces

33.
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Boileau, Nicholas

34.
A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
Lichtenberg, Georg C.

35.
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Bierce, Ambrose

36.
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

37.
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

38.
Their silence is praise enough.
Terence

39.
There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.
Shakespeare, William

40.
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

41.
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.

42.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Canetti, Elias

43.
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

44.
You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.
Parker, Paul P.

45.
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

46.
I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.
Smith, Dean

47.
I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Trump, Donald

48.
There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
Moliere

49.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.
If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.


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