Quotes About Praise

You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.

When you are winning games in a row, normally what the people say about you is good.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

It feels great when people talk about your craft and you get noticed for it.

Uzodinma Iweala is a fine and confident novelist.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I speak? I will laud mine enemies and they will become friends; I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs. Is

In fact she's a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder.

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about

A lesson I learned from Bill, a lesson that perhaps should be obvious, though there's evidence that most other people don't know it, either, is that direct and sincere compliments are shockingly effective—that they feel wonderful. What in theory should sound saccharine or manipulative rarely does in practice, so long as you believe the other person really means it. And we crave praise not, I think, because most of us are egomaniacal. It's because we're human.

Why don't you praise me up to the skies? She laughed. I should have the trouble of dragging you down again, she said.

The words Think and Thank are inscribed in many of the Cromwellian churches of England. These words ought to be inscribed in our hearts, too: Think and Thank. Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.

Be 'hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise,' and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime – repeat them years after you have forgotten them.

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise."*

Give honest and sincere appreciation.

There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize any-one. I believe in giving a person incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.

Think and Thank." Think of all we have to be grateful for, and thank God for all our boons and bounties.

Beginning with praise is like the dentist who begins his work with Novocain. The patient still gets a drilling, but the Novocain is pain-killing.