Praise Quotes

When life seems just a dreary grind; and things seem fated to annoy; say something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy.

Source Unknown

If you must strike a man from behind, slap hi on the back.

Source Unknown

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

James Barrie

A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

Samuel Johnson

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Samuel Johnson

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

Fanny Brice

The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience there is no theater. Every technique learned by the actor, every curtain, every flat on the stage, every careful analysis by the director, every coordinated scene, is for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, our evaluators, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.

Viola Spolin

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Jules Renard

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

Orison Swett Marden

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Orison Swett Marden

Everybody has the right to be left alone but nobody has the right to demand approval.

Source Unknown

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

Samuel Goldwyn

There's nothing worse than someone coming up to me and going Oh God, I really love your hair.

Gavin Rossdale

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

George Eliot

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Xenophon

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.

Leo Tolstoy

Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear

William Shakespeare

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

William James

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Dag Hammarskjold