{"id":2197,"date":"2016-05-13T10:16:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2016-05-13T10:16:35","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:16:35","slug":"Famous_Quotes_about_Praise_87_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=2197","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes about Praise (87 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Samuel Johnson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.<\/div>\n
Jean De La Bruyere<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.<\/div>\n
Alec Waugh<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.<\/div>\n
Georg C. Lichtenberg<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.<\/div>\n
Ella Wheeler Wilcox<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.<\/div>\n
Francois De La Rochefoucauld<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Admonish your friends privately, but praise them openly.<\/div>\n
Publilius Syrus<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.<\/div>\n
Sydney Smith<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.<\/div>\n
Edmund Burke<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!<\/div>\n
George W. Crane<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.<\/div>\n
Nicholas Boileau<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.<\/div>\n
Charles Horton Cooley<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.<\/div>\n
Ambrose Bierce<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ''Make me feel important.'' Never forget this message when working with people.<\/div>\n
Mary Kay<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ''you can do it'' when things are tough.<\/div>\n
Richard M. DeVos<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.<\/div>\n
Alexander Pope<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.<\/div>\n
Will Rogers<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?<\/div>\n
Friedrich Nietzsche<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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He who praises everybody, praises nobody.<\/div>\n
Samuel Johnson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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