Praise Quotes
50 quotations about Praise
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.
Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
One should use praise to recognize what one is not.
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!
The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
I've always been a sucker for attention.
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Authors on Praise
American Proverb
Aristotle
Mary Kay Ash
Sir James M. Barrie
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Bible
Ambrose Bierce
Nicholas Boileau
Jean De La Bruyere
Pearl S. Buck
Edmund Burke
Elias Canetti
George W. Crane
Albert Einstein
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Owen Felltham
Charles Fillmore
Samuel Goldwyn
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes