Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Praise

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.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Phillips, Wendell

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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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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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.

21.

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

Parker, Paul P.

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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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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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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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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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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 do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

Smith, Dean

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Crane, George W.

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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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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The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Moliere

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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.