Praise Quotes

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

Rozanne Weissman

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Wayne Dyer

Many audiences all over the world will answer positively from their own experience that they have seen the face of the invisible through an experience on the stage that transcended their experience in life. They will maintain that Oedipus or Berenice or Hamlet or The Three Sisters performed with beauty and with love fires the spirit and gives them a reminder that daily drabness is not necessarily all.

Peter (Stephen Paul) Brook

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Claudius Claudianus

You can't eat compliments.

Charles Monroe Schulz, (Snoopy)

The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Thomas J. Peters

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Sydney Smith

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Andre Gide

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promi

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves, whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

Diogenes

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Bible

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

Norman Vincent Peale

Criticism is more effective when it sounds like praise.

Arnold Glasgow

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.

Mary Kay Ash

Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced.

James A. Belasco

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?

Friedrich Nietzsche

So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

Friedrich Nietzsche