• Admiration; is our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.~ Ambrose Bierce
• A man is never more serious than when he praises himself.~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
• Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!~ George W. Crane
• A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.~ Nicholas Boileau
• Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, “Make me feel important.” Never forget this message when working with people.~ Mary Kay
• 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.~ Richard M. DeVos
• Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.~ Will Rogers
• He is not praised whose praiser deserveth not praise.~ Gabriel Harvey
• He who praises everybody, praises nobody.~ Samuel Johnson
• If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games.~ Bear Bryant
• If you treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• It takes so little to make people happy. Just a touch, If we know how to give it, just a word fitly spoken, a slight readjustment of some bolt or pin or bearing in the delicate machinery of a soul.~ Frank Crane
• Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.~ Wendell Phillips
• Many people love to praise right and do wrong.~ Danish Proverb
• Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.~ Rudyard Kipling
• No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.~ Mary Kay Ash
• One should use praise to recognize what one is not.~ Elias Canetti
• Praise God even when you don’t understand what He is doing.~ Henry Jacobsen
• Praise does wonders for the sense of hearing.~ Best of Bits and Pieces
• Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.~ Aristotle
• Praise the sea but keep on land.~ English Proverb
• Praising an honest person who doesn’t deserve it, always wounds them.~ Nicholas Boileau
• So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else’s.~ Friedrich Nietzsche
• Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.~ Samuel Butler
• The best way to get praise is to die.~ Italian Proverb
• The father in praising his son extols himself.~ Chinese Proverb
• The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.~ Albert Einstein
• The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.~ James M. Barrie
• There’s nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world.~ Bob Anderson
• There’s not much you cannot do if you’ll give the credit to others.~ Teeter M. Buchanan
• There are two things people want more than sex and money…recognition and praise.~ Mary Kay Ash
• There is no belittling worse than to over-praise a man.~ Owen Felltham
• The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.~ Norman Vincent Peale
• Those who know how to praise also know how to lie.~ Albanian Proverb
• Three words of praise will soften anybody’s heart.~ T. C. Lai
• To praise is an investment in happiness.~ George M. Adams
• 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
• We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: Why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?~ Jean Rostand
• We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.~ Charles Fillmore

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