Praise Quotes - Page 33

• I recommend to you, in my last, an innocent piece of art: that of flattering people behind their backs, in presence of those who, to make their own court, much more than for your sake, will not fail to repeat, and even amplify, the praise to the party concerned. This is of all flattery the most pleasing, and consequently the most effectual.

  Doug Stanhope

  Art, People, Pieces

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• Recognition for a job well done is high on the list of motivating influences for all people; more important in many instances than compensation itself. When someone is promoted, a promotion that everyone could see coming because of an excellent record, the entire department is stimulated. For it is clear, then, that promotions are based on merit. A promotion that seems to come out of the blue, which is always the case when no one knows what the next fellow is doing, causes nothing but resentment and a further weakening of the will to work.

  John Moulder Wilson

  Jobs, Blue, People

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• Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Motivation, Grateful, People

  Marguerite Countess of Blessington, Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1839). “Desultory Thoughts and Reflections”, p.74

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• Praise thyself never.

  Seneca the Younger

  Modesty, Thyself

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• Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Flattery

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1829). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., Now First Collected: Miscellaneous works”

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• The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Envy, World

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• To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Appreciation, May, Action

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• Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Pride, Names, Receiving

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• The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Merit, Envious, Mark

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• We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, Different, Way

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• There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Events, Trifling, Prudence

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• Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

  James Mackintosh

  Mind, Language, Substitutes

  Sir James Mackintosh (1851). “The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh: Complete in One Volume”, p.95

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• Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pain, Vanity, Names

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• The readers and the hearers like my books,
  And yet some writers cannot them digest;
  But what care I? for when I make a feast,
  I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.

  John Harington

  Book, Criticism, Care

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• Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

  Josh Billings

  Convince Us, Desire, Mortality

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• Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates.

  Josh Billings

  Writing, Poverty, Wealth

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• I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Men, Heaven

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9, Aeterna Press

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• Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Self, People, Applause

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• Of course children benefit from positive feedback. But praise and rewards are not the only methods of reinforcement. More emphasisshould be place on appreciation--reinforcement related explicitly and directly to the content of the child's interest and efforts.

  Lilian Katz

  Appreciation, Children, Effort

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• We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.

  James A. Garfield

  Past, Giving, Forever

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• Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine power to accomplish what must be done. An individual motivated by a desire for praise or recognition will not qualify to be taught by the Spirit. An individual who is arrogant or who lets his or her emotions influence decisions will not be powerfully led by the Spirit.

  Richard G. Scott

  Inspiration, Humility, Giving

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• Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.

  Pam Houston

  Determination, Gay, Thinking

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• Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humble, Vanity, People

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.110, HarperCollins UK

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• Praise and glory to God for whom nothing is too hard

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Glory, Glory Of God, Hard

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• For Jesus, it is clear, poverty is not the problem; it is the solution. Until human beings learn to live in naked contact and direct simplicity and equality with each other, sharing all resources, there can be no solution to the misery of the human condition and no establishment of God's kingdom. Jesus' radical and paradoxical sense of who could and who could not enter the Kingdom is even more clearly illustrated by his famous praise of children.

  Andrew Harvey

  Jesus, Children, Simplicity

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