Great English Quotes and Aphorisms on praises by famous writers

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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON PRAISES

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

Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)

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 (1918-2001, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)

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

Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics)

To praise is an investment in happiness.

George M. Adams (1878-1962, American author)

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

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary")

There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world.

Bob Anderson (1947-, American dart game champion)

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)

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

Hosea Ballou (1771-1852, American theologian, founder of "Universalism")

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

James M. Barrie (1860-1937, British playwright)

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)

Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.

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

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary")

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

Nicholas Boileau (1636-1711, French literary poet, critic)

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

Nicholas Boileau (1636-1711, French literary poet, critic)

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)

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.

Bear Bryant (1913-1983, American football coach)

There's not much you cannot do if you'll give the credit to others.

Teeter M. Buchanan

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

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973, American novelist)

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)

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

Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)

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)

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

Elias Canetti (1905-1994, Austrian novelist, philosopher)

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, Roman orator, politician)

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)

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!

George W. Crane

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.)

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

Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)

I've always been a sucker for attention.

Cuba Gooding Jr. (1968-, American actor, dancer, musician)

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)

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)

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

Owen Felltham (1602-1668, British author)

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

Charles Fillmore (American co-founder of Unity School of Christianity)

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)

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

Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974, American film producer, founder of MGM)

He is not praised whose praiser deserveth not praise.

Gabriel Harvey

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Cullen Hightower

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)

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 (BC 65-8, Italian poet)

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)

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

Mary Kay

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

Henry Jacobsen

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

William James (1842-1910, American psychologist, professor, author)

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)

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.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784, British author)

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936, British author of Prose, Verse)

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

Jean De La Bruyere (1645-1696, French classical writer)

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.