Praise Quotes

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

Mark Twain

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

James Russell Lowell

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Alexander Pope

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Alexander Pope

Their silence is praise enough.

Terence

Never praise your Cider, Horse, or Bedfellow

Benjamin Franklin

How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course?

Horace

Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.

Publilius Syrus

After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you're a lot like John Wayne. And I said, How so? And he said, Well, you're exactly the same in all your roles. Now, as a modern American actor, that's not what you want to hear. But for a guy who watched John Wayne movies and grew up in Iowa, it's a sterling compliment.

Dermot Mulroney

There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.

Moli

It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

Charles Dickens

Where there is no difficulty there is no praise

Samuel Johnson

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

Edward George BulwerLytton

No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.

Mary Kay Ash

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make me feel important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Mary Kay Ash

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

Mary Kay Ash

It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.

Alfred Jarry

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

Alfred Jarry

Someone praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, Cato, the elder, said, There is a wide difference between true courage and a mere contempt of life.

Plutarch

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Norman Vincent Peale