Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

James, William

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

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

Parker, Paul P.

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

Moliere

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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

Smith, Dean

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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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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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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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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Crane, George W.

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

Kay, Mary

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Their silence is praise enough.