Compliment Quotes - Page 6

• The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

  Alistair Cooke

  Best Friend, Christian, Children

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• The biggest compliment I think an actor can get is I can't imagine anyone else in the role.

  Jeff Daniels

  Thinking, Roles, Actors

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 25, 2012.

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• The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.

  Vanessa Mae

  People, Connections, Albums

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• Complimenting yourself is the funnest form of manifestation.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, Form, Manifestation

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2013

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• A sincere compliment is one of the most effective tools to teach and motivate others.

  Zig Ziglar

  Tools, Sincere, Teach

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• When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.

  Frederick Lenz

  Believe, Humility, Buddhism

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• My rule is if one person says it, a thousand people want to say it. That goes for compliments too. I try to balance it out in my head.

  Jen Kirkman

  People, Balance, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People give out compliments because it's polite.

  Boots Riley

  People, Giving, Polite

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's the greatest compliment when the writer becomes invisible in the whole process.

  Ann Voskamp

  Invisible, Process, Whole

  "Interview with 'One Thousand Gifts' Author, Ann Voskamp". Interview with Frank Viola, churchleaders.com. February 11, 2013.

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• I don't give out compliments easily.

  Pat Summitt

  Giving

  Pat Summitt (2012). “Raise the Roof”, p.45, Three Rivers Press

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• Complaints bring misery; compliments brings strength.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Bhajans, Complaining, Misery

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• I used to think that a guy telling me I'm "not like other girls" was a compliment and I've now flipped to seeing that for the back-handed compliment that it is.

  Liz Prince

  Girl, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

  Cormega

  Kindness, Way, Old Saying

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Probably the biggest compliment someone can give you is, "Gosh, you look great. You don't look tired."

  Nicole Kidman

  Tired, Giving

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Education, Attitude

  "Lena Dunham: 'People called me fat and hideous, and I lived" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2014.

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• Women need food, water, and compliments That's right. And an occasional pair of shoes.

  Chris Rock

  Shoes, Water, Needs

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• A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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• A woman needs to be told she is beautiful. She needs to be told she is valued. She needs to be told she is worthwhile.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Beautiful, Needs, She Is Beautiful

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• I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Age, Mouths, May

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• I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.488, Wordsworth Editions

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• Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Brave Person, Bravery

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.

  Suzanne Enoch

  Looks, Argument, Desperate

  Suzanne Enoch (2011). “A Beginner's Guide to Rakes”, p.195, Macmillan

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• I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.

  Nick Cave

  Beautiful, Art, Inspire

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• She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.

  Billy Joel

  Eye, Her Smile, Wounds

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• He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Unconditional Love, Wanted, Pure

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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