“The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.”
“Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.”
“Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.”
“When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.”
“The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.”
“Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.”
“There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.”
“We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.”
“When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.”
“I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.”
“No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.”
“Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.”
“Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.”
“A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.”
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
“The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.”
“So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.”
“You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.”
“There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.”
“I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.”
“A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.”
“Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.”
“We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.”
“The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.”
“The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.”
“The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a ''But''.”
“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.”
“How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.”
“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”
“Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ''Make me feel important.'' Never forget this message when working with people.”