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• The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Moving, Men

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• If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

  August Bebel

  Opponents, Way, Stuck

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• Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

  Og Mandino

  Gossip, Scratches, Tongue

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.51, Bantam

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• Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing;
  Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.

  John Harington

  Beautiful, Strong, Wine

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• Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

  David Hume

  Revenge, Cruelty, Inhumanity

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• Praise is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.

  Carl Lentz

  Powerful, Eye, People

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• Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Office, Actors, Want

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• Your praises will become your wages.

  William Shakespeare

  Wages

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• Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely admire the flatteree, please that person, please other present company, be pleased to stagger rivals, and get something out of it: applause, promotion, a favor, reciprocal praise. Flattery is as social as a banquet.

  Willis Regier

  Rivals, Favors, Welcome

  Willis Goth Regier (2007). “In Praise of Flattery”, p.4, U of Nebraska Press

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• Don't wait until people do things exactly right before you praise them.

  Ken Blanchard

  People, Waiting

  Ken Blanchard, Paul Meyer, Dick Ruhe (2007). “Know Can Do!: Put Your Know-How Into Action”, p.72, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Silence, Critics

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• ..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Different, Virtue

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.505

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• Never be afraid of the world's censure; it's praise is much more to be dreaded.

  Charles Spurgeon

  World, Censure

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 28: Sermons 1637-1697”, p.238, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

  Beth Moore

  Intimacy, Compulsory, True Intimacy

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• Give praise to others while they are here; they won't need it in the hereafter.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Giving, Needs, Hereafter

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• I teach students that what people say about failure in politics is mostly wrong. People always told me, 'They'll praise you on your way up and kick you on your way down.' That wasn't my experience. I can't walk down the street in Toronto without someone coming up and saying hello.

  Michael Ignatieff

  People, Toronto, Saying Hello

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• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

  Alex Faickney Osborn

  Flower, Creativity, Delicate

  Alex Faickney Osborn (1953). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative thinking”

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• Your work should be in praise of what you love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Should, What You Love

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• Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1173, Library of Alexandria

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• Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Criticism, Half

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• Reviewing books is all about coziness. It is all of it a kind of caucus race. Women review women, Jewish writers review and praise Jewish writers, blacks review blacks, etc.

  Alexander Theroux

  Book, Race, Etc

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• None of my English teachers in college were praising me or telling me I was anything special. But then in creative writing classes they were. And I enjoyed those more anyway.

  John Brandon

  Teacher, Writing, College

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The extra opinions and the extra praise is just a bonus, it's not the main thing. The main thing is how I feel about myself. And I feel really good about myself.

  Brandy Norwood

  Bonus, Opinion, Feels

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Eggs, Exhibitions

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• There is a law of gratitude, and it is . . . the natural principle that action and reaction are always equal and in opposite directions. The grateful outreaching of your mind in thankful praise to supreme intelligence is a liberation or expenditure of force. It cannot fail to reach that to which it is addressed, and the reaction is an instantaneous movement toward you.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Gratitude, Grateful, Law

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.24, GENERAL PRESS

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