Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Rogers, Will

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

Smith, Dean

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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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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 the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

21.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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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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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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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.

28.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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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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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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Parker, Paul P.

41.

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

Moliere

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Rogers, Will

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

Trump, Donald

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

Marden, Orison Swett