Motivational Quotes

Praise

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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Best Quotes about Praise

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

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.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

12.

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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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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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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Shakespeare, William

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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Trump, Donald

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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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 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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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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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.

34.

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

35.

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

Moliere

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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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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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Crane, George W.

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.