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Quotes About Compliments

I've been complimenting people these days. Jesus is really touching my heart.
~ Unknown
Having good looks is a gift yes...but that's nothing compared to the feeling when there's someone who never fails to make you feel Beautiful and Loved!!
~ Unknown
Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.
~ Bruce Lee
Just speaking for myself, when I'm complimented for being Vietnamese-American in television - the only one - that doesn't make me feel happy, that makes me feel really lonely, actually.
~ Jeannie Mai
When they passed room 103, four guys dressed like skaters ran to the doorway and leaned outside. "Hey, Tianna," the first one shouted. "Looking fine," the second one added. "Thanks," she answered, and watched the other two admire her. "I can't believe the impression you've already made with the guys.
~ Lynne Ewing
Don't let people's compliments go to your head, and don't let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you'll be ruled by what other people think of you.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
You did very well, old friend. Shall I blush and simper? If you don't keep it up for long. I hate blushing and simpering in a grown man when it goes on and on.
~ John D. MacDonald
Novels were not arguments; a story worked, or it didn't, on its own merits. What did it matter if a detail was real or imagined? What mattered was that the detail seemed real, and that it was absolutely the best detail for the circumstance. That wasn't much of a theory, but it was all Ruth could truly commit herself to at the moment. It was time to retire that old lecture, and her penance was to endure the compliments of her former credo.
~ John Irving
Compliments can boost confidence. It also can amplify an ego. Be careful.
~ Unknown
Don't give me backhanded compliments. I can see right through them. Don't make empty promises that you know you won't keep. I've let this go on too long.
~ Unknown
A girl who has been hurt and put down so much will never believe your compliments.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Hello, my name is insecure. I won't believe any of the compliments you give me but put me down and it won't leave my mind.
~ Unknown
I like being told I'm the best. Makes me feel good about myself.
~ Unknown
I look in the mirror and think I'm ugly. I look at pictures of me and think I'm fat. I look at my reflection in glass and think my nose is too big. But when I look at you, I feel like the most beautiful girl in the world...because you treat me like one.
~ Unknown
I served with that son of a bitch, Corporal. Ruiz wouldn't compliment his mother for giving birth to him, if you know what I mean.
~ John Scalzi
Be respectable, but be unique. Stand up for yourself, but remember to be kind. Forget the insults but always remember the compliments.
~ Unknown
I said something friendly or even admiring to her. She was like almost all women, who imagine that the compliment they receive is a strict expression of the truth, that it is a judgment passed impartially, irresistibly, as though it applied to an art object unconnected with a particular individual. And so it was with a seriousness that made me blush at my own hypocrisy that she put the vain and artless question customary in such circumstances, "You like it?
~ Marcel Proust
If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.
~ Erma Bombeck
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
~ Charles Dickens
No matter how many times you tell a girl she is beautiful, she will never believe you if she doesnt believe in herself.
~ Unknown
Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses.
~ Joyce Meyer
If I had a dollar for every time someone told me I was handsome I would have exactly one dollar...Thanks mom!!!!
~ Kevin McCarty
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
~ Rudyard Kipling
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
~ Mark Twain