Motivational Quotes

Praise

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Praise

1.

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

2.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

3.

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

4.

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.

5.

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

Kay, Mary

6.

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

7.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

8.

The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Peters, Thomas J.

9.

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

10.

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

11.

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

Phillips, Wendell

12.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Canetti, Elias

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

16.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

17.

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

Peale, Norman Vincent

18.

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

19.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

James, William

20.

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

Moliere

21.

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

Parker, Paul P.

22.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

23.

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

Rogers, Will

24.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

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

Felltham, Owen

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

29.

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

30.

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

Rogers, Will

31.

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

33.

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

34.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

35.

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

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

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

Trump, Donald

39.

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

Einstein, Albert

40.

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

Bible

41.

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.

42.

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

45.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

46.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

47.

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

Crane, George W.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Fillmore, Charles