Praise Quotes

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Edmund Burke

Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.

Bible

Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. Ecclesiasticus 15:9

Bible

Everybody likes a compliment.

Abraham Lincoln

Congratulations is the civility of envy.

Ambrose Bierce

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

C.S. Lewis

Please all, and you will please none.

Aesop

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

William Shakespeare

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one's own life.

Dame Alice Markova

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Greil Marcus

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

Jimmy Stewart

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Wendell Phillips

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Pearl Buck

How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.

John Dearden

To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

Walt Whitman

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.

Oscar Wilde

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

William Penn

To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Phillips Brooks

It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

Dale Carnegie