Compliments You Quotes

• When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.

  Joel Osteen

  Encouragement, Love You, People

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  Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

  Mark Twain

  Self Esteem, Humorous, Pay

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• Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

  Thomas Fuller

  Cost, Pay, Dear

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• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Smile, Appreciation, Kindness

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.

  Alice Clayton

  Girl, Moving, Twists

  Alice Clayton (2016). “The Cocktail Collection: Wallbanger, Rusty Nailed, and Screwdrivered”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Life, Success, Money

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

  David Amram

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

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• But even considering these, I have great confidence in our young people as a whole. I regard you as the finest generation in the history of the Church. I compliment you, and I have in my heart a great feeling of love and respect and appreciation for you.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Appreciation, Heart, Our Generation

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• Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

  Jesse Ventura

  Communication, Talking, People

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• You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

  Jonathan Tisch

  Successful, People, Working Together

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. April 16, 2005.

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• Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

  Mary Schmich

  Succeed, Insult, Remember

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• Elizabeth, With my compliments. You will never get your claws into another one of mine. Rot in hell, Nïx clasped her hands over her chest, sighing, "He gave you his heart. That's so romantic. So much better than a candy heart. Those get stuck in the fangs, you know.

  Kresley Cole

  Heart, Hands, Hell

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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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• I find Donald Trump to be incredibly gracious, energetic, I mean the greatest compliment you can get from Donald Trump is not hey, that's brilliant or that was really smart or great job. It's you're really high energy.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Jobs, Smart, Mean

  Source: tech.fortune.cnn.com

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• Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

  Irving Thalberg

  Pay, Compliment

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• It's great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you're doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Strong, Careers, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Thank you, but I'm afraid I can't accept your compliment. You see, I'm an atheist, so if I'm also God, that would mean that I don't believe in myself, and at this point in my life, I don't need the added insecurity.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Atheist, Believe, Mean

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• I think one artist to another artist, the best compliment you can pay one another, because the part of you that is inspired or creates something, to write a joke or a song, that's like the God-like part of a person.

  Dave Chappelle

  Song, Writing, Artist

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. June 13, 2006.

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• You're better off owning 30 percent and having two amazing partners who compliment you and are equally as driven as you are than having 100 percent and only having one aspect of it, unless you're a super genius who is creative and business-minded at the same time.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Two, Creative, Genius

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• The compliments you are about to pay could only sadden me, because what you love in our dear peninsula is exactly the object of our hatreds. Indeed, you crisscross Italy only to meticulously sniff out the traces of our oppressive past, and you are happy, insanely happy, if you have the good fortune to carry home some miserable stone on which our ancestors have trodden.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Home, Past, Hatred

  "Modernism and Its Margins: Reinscribing Cultural Modernity from Spain and Latin America" by Anthony L. Geist, Jose B. Monle-N, Taylor & Francis, (p. 57), 1999.

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• Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay an individual than helping him to be useful and to find satisfaction in his usefulness.

  Donald Laird

  Self Esteem, Skills, People

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• As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Believe, Book, Character

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• I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

  LeRoy Neiman

  Needs, Done, Care

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• If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

  Yoko Ono

  Use, Compliment, Ifs

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2013.

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