Quotes about praise

"Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard."

Aristotle on praise   

"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 act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration."

Ballou, Hosea 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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"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 on praise   

"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   

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

Bierce, Ambrose on praise   

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

Bierce, Ambrose 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   

"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 on praise   

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

Bruyere, Jean De La on 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 on praise   

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

Buck, Pearl S. on praise   

"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. 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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"The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places."

Butler, Samuel on praise   

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"One should use praise to recognize what one is not."

Canetti, Elias on praise   

"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. on praise   

"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 on praise   

"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 on praise   

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

Einstein, Albert on praise
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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 on praise   

"Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on praise   

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

Felltham, Owen on praise   

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

Fillmore, Charles on praise   

"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've always been a sucker for attention."

Gooding Jr., Cuba on praise   

"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on praise   

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

James, William on praise