"To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak."

Masillon, Jean Baptiste on pride
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"Pride is the mask of one's own faults."

Proverb, Jewish on pride   

"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."

Ash, Mary Kay on praise
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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 on praise
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"No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important."

Ash, Mary Kay on praise
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"The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble."

Barrie, Sir James M. on praise
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"Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing."

Best of Bits and Pieces on praise   

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

Bible on praise   

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

Bible on praise   

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

Boileau, Nicholas on praise   

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

Boileau, Nicholas on praise   

"Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover."

Burke, Edmund on praise
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"Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!"

Crane, George W. on praise
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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. on praise
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"Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on praise   

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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 on praise
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"When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy."

Goldwyn, Samuel on praise   

"I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward."

Howells, William Dean on praise   

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

Jacobsen, Henry on praise
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"The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain."

Johnson, Samuel on praise   

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

Kay, Mary on praise
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"The surest plan to make a man is, think him so."

Lowell, James Russell on praise
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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 on praise   

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

Moliere on praise   

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich on praise
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"You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason."

Parker, Paul P. on praise
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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 on praise
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"Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise."

Phillips, Wendell on praise
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"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

Asimov, Isaac on morality
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"It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague."

Carter, Angela on morality   

"A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not."

Feoude on morality   

"A woman can look both moral and exciting -- if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle."

Ferber, Edna on morality   

"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."

Freud, Sigmund on morality
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"Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order."

Hume, Basil on morality   

"Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."

Jefferson, Thomas on morality
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"There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints."

Johnson, Pamela Hansford on morality   

"The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on morality   

"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."

Rand, Ayn on morality
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"We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach."

Russell, Bertrand on morality   

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on morality
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