Motivational Quotes

Praise

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

- Bruyere, Jean De La

Best Quotes about Praise

1.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

2.

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

Phillips, Wendell

3.

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.

4.

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

Rogers, Will

5.

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

Smith, Dean

6.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

7.

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

8.

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

9.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

10.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

11.

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

Felltham, Owen

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

15.

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.

16.

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

Bible

17.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.

Kay, Mary

18.

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

22.

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

24.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

25.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

26.

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

Bruyere, Jean De La

29.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

30.

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

Rogers, Will

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

35.

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

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

37.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

38.

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

39.

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

Parker, Paul P.

40.

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

Crane, George W.

41.

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

42.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

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

Moliere

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Trump, Donald

48.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

49.

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

50.

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.