Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Gooding Jr., Cuba

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

Bierce, Ambrose

So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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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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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 belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Felltham, Owen

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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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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Fillmore, Charles

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

Moliere

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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

Smith, Dean

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Bible

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

Rogers, Will

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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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.