PRAISE

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(454 votes)  We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn
1644-1718, British Religious Leader, Founder of Pennsylvania

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(705 votes)  Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(684 votes)  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.

Mary Kay Ash
American Businesswoman, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

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(676 votes)  So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(653 votes)  Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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

Mary Kay Ash
American Businesswoman, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

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(645 votes)  There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

Mary Kay Ash
American Businesswoman, Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

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(623 votes)  Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(582 votes)  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.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(551 votes)  Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(507 votes)  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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(481 votes)  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.

Phillips Brooks
1835-1893, American Minister, Poet

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(466 votes)  Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(451 votes)  Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(442 votes)  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.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
1803-1873, British Novelist, Poet

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(441 votes)  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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(431 votes)  A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(427 votes)  When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

Samuel Goldwyn
1882-1974, American Film Producer, Founder, MGM

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(427 votes)  Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Wendell Phillips
1811-1884, American Reformer, Orator

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

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(424 votes)  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.

Charles Horton Cooley
1864-1929, American Sociologist

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(422 votes)  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.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(416 votes)  The best way to get praise is to die.

Italian Proverb
Sayings of Italian Origin

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(416 votes)  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.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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

Will Rogers
1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

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(414 votes)  The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

James Russell Lowell
1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor

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

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(398 votes)  There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Owen Felltham
1602-1668, British Author

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(393 votes)  Their silence is praise enough.

Terence
BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies

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(392 votes)  Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

John Madden
American Football Coach

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(391 votes)  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.

Richard M. DeVos
1926-, American Businessman, Co-founder of Amway Corp.

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

Thomas J. Peters
1942-, American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer

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

Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(390 votes)  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.

Charles M. Schwab
1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman

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(390 votes)  Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Sydney Smith
1771-1845, British Writer, Clergyman

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

Norman Vincent Peale
1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author

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(383 votes)  The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(381 votes)  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.

Peggy Noonan
1950-, American Author, Presidential Speechwriter

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(379 votes)  I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

Donald Trump
1946-, American Businessman

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(379 votes)  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.

Frank Crane
American Actor

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(377 votes)  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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(377 votes)  Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, American Novelist

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(376 votes)  I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised.

Dean Smith
American College Basketball Coach

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(375 votes)  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
46-120 AD, Greek Essayist, Biographer

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(357 votes)  A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Alec Waugh
1898-1981, British Novelist, Travel Writer

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(353 votes)  There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.

MoliFre
1622-1673, French Playwright

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(352 votes)  Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

Henry Jacobsen

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(349 votes)  You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.

Paul P. Parker

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(338 votes)  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.

William Dean Howells
1837-1920, American Novelist, Critic

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