Motivational Quotes

Praise

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

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Praise

1.

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

Felltham, Owen

2.

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

Trump, Donald

3.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

4.

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Proverb

5.

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.

6.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

7.

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

8.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

9.

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

Best of Bits and Pieces

10.

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

Ash, Mary Kay

11.

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

Kay, Mary

12.

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

Fillmore, Charles

13.

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

14.

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Jacobsen, Henry

16.

People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.

Proverb

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

Rogers, Will

19.

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

20.

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

Phillips, Wendell

21.

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

22.

The best way to get praise is to die.

Proverb, Italian

23.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

24.

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

Rogers, Will

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

Bible

30.

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.

31.

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

Steele, Sir Richard

32.

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

Smith, Dean

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Proverb, American

36.

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

James, William

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

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.

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

43.

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

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

46.

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.