Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Trump, Donald

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

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.

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

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Trump, Donald

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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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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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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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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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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Rogers, Will

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

Felltham, Owen

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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

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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 meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.