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Quotes About Praise

The best way to get praise is to die.
~ Italian proverb
Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.
~ John Wesley
One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected.
~ Bertrand Russell
Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.
~ Bruce Lee
Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
~ Thomas Hobbes
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
~ Norm MacDonald
Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.
~ Willie McCovey
People come up to me in the street and use words like 'legend.'
~ Bradley Wiggins
The idea of someone not liking me or not liking my movie was always easier to deal with than someone really liking it. I don't know why.
~ Casey Affleck
There's nothing worse than winning but being told by people that you're losing.
~ Jerry Della Femina
It's not just the winning I like, it's the affection you get for winning. It's a lovely feeling, that.
~ Phil Taylor
You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
~ Kaitlin Olson
Make no mistake, I'm a huge admirer of Faheem Ashraf, and I said so in England.
~ Mickey Arthur
For Lewis, praise is not only a natural part of life, but also one of the most important traits of a healthy mind. He observes, "The humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, minds praised most, while the cranks, misfits and malcontents praised least." He sums it up this way: "Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible.
~ Diana Pavlac Glyer
Nobody ever gets praised for the right reasons.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
I praise my destroyer, and will continue praising until hours run like mercury through my fingers, hope flares a final time in the last throes of innocence, and all the coins of sense are spent.
~ Diane Ackerman
But the phenomenon of reputation is a delicate thing. A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
~ Don DeLillo
I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
Worship is not love.
~ Donald Hall
If you flatter somebody it will go to their heads. If you love them it will go to their hearts.
~ Donald Miller
A mark of a competent adult is their ability to accept feedback. The mark of a child is their expectation of praise without merit.
~ Donald Miller
Adding Value. Look for (or ask for) testimonials
~ Donald Miller
Truth will never spoil any one. Praise is very delightful.
~ Unknown
Oh joy! oh delight! should we go without dying, No sickness, no sadness, no dread and no crying. Caught up through the clouds with our Lord into glory, When Jesus receives "His own." O Lord Jesus, how long, how long Ere we shout the glad song, Christ returneth! Hallelujah! hallelujah! Amen, Halleljah! Amen. "Christ Returneth" —H. L. Thrner
~ J. Vernon McGee