Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Trump, Donald

Best Quotes about Praise

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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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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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One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

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

Bible

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Trump, Donald

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

Crane, George W.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

Einstein, Albert

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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.