Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Trump, Donald

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Trump, Donald

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

Bible

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

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

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

Phillips, Wendell

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Rogers, Will

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Rogers, Will

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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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

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

James, William

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

Moliere

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

Smith, Dean

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

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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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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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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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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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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.