Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

Best Quotes about Praise

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

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

Phillips, Wendell

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

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Bible

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

Steele, Sir Richard

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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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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

Smith, Dean

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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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Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

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

Crane, George W.

34.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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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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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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The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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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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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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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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Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

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

Kipling, Rudyard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bierce, Ambrose