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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

  Power, Eulogy, Wealth

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.71, University of Georgia Press

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• So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Men, Long

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• 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 DeVos

  Positive, Smile, Hope

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• Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, Kids, Parenting

  "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values". Book by Dorothy Nolte and Rachel Harris, January 5, 1998.

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• Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Encouragement, Self Esteem, Judging

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• Blame is safer than praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Criticism, Blame, Critics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.129, Penguin

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• Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

  William Arthur Ward

  Relationship, Encouragement, Forgive And Forget

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• Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

  Og Mandino

  Responsibility, Cutting, Thinking

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.102, Bantam

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• Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Kindness, Flower

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.104

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• He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

  Seneca the Younger

  May, Doe, Ought

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 624-25, Octavia, 454, 1922.

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• What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

  Augustus Hare

  Character, Information, Standards

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• He only profits from praise who values criticism.

  Heinrich Heine

  Good Life, Gossip, Envy

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• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

  Immanuel Kant

  Peace, War, Evil

  Carl Joachim Friedrich, Immanuel Kant (1969). “Inevitable peace”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.

  Moliere

  Pockets, Literature, Bears

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• It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, People, Easier

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• Neither blame or praise yourself.

  Plutarch

  Blame

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• We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Admire, Earnest

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• A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.

  Helen Rowland

  Relationship, Heart, Men

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• In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bird, Anxiety, Everyday

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• 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Following the Equator ch. 25, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Fear, Understanding

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Grace, Rehearsal

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.21, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

  Studs Terkel

  Hero, Past, Years

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• A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Doe, Flattery

  "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit".

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• The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Silly, Men

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “A Critic in Pall Mall”, p.214, Oscar Wilde

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