Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. [Ecclesiasticus 15:9]

Bible

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

10.

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.

11.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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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

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

Fillmore, Charles

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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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 from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

Steele, Sir Richard

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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Smith, Dean

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Rogers, Will

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

Crane, George W.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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

Bible

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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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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.

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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