Praise Quotes

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

George Bernard Shaw

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!

George W. Crane

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

Aristotle

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

Mark Twain

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.

Dr. Paul Tournier

You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.

Paul P. Parker

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

Katherine F. Gerould

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

Maurice Wagner

My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or a hope, or a preoccupation which is his alone and isolates him from mankind; and in this respect at least the function of a play is to reveal him to himself so that he may touch others by virtue of the revelation of his mutuality with them. If only for this reason I regard the theater as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.

Arthur Miller

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

Albert Einstein

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber

Samuel Johnson

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Charles Caleb Colton

I will praise any man that will praise me.

William Shakespeare

A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

John Lydon Rotten

The best of men is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Kahlil Gibran

To praise is an investment in happiness.

George M. Adams

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

Charles M. Schwab

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

Red Barber