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

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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.

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

Moliere

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

Bible

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

10.

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

15.

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

Felltham, Owen

16.

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

Phillips, Wendell

17.

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

Rogers, Will

18.

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

19.

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

Crane, George W.

20.

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

24.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

25.

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.

26.

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

Rogers, Will

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Kipling, Rudyard

32.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

34.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

36.

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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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

39.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

44.

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

45.

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

Smith, Dean

46.

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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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

48.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American