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A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results. Ella Wheeler Wilcox Praise 298
Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eyes. Samuel Lover Praise 256
The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone Javan Praise 145
Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise. Alexander Pope Praise 118
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people. Mary Kay Ash Praise 116
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark -- that is critical genius. Billy Wilder Praise 113
Applause is the echo of a platitude. Ambrose Bierce Praise 110
Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations. Sir Richard Steele Praise 103
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. Mary Kay Ash Praise 101
He who praises everybody praises nobody. Samuel Johnson Praise 98
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. Samuel Goldwyn Praise 95
He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. Raymond Hull Praise 94
Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them. Thomas Fuller Praise 93
I can live for two months on a good compliment. Mark Twain Praise 92
Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Praise 90
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences. Gore Vidal Praise 89
We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver. Ralph Waldo Emerson Praise 88
He wants worth who dares not praise a foe. John Dryden Praise 88
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising. Cyril Connolly Praise 86
Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth! George W. Crane Praise 86
I really lack the words to compliment myself today. Alberto Tomba Praise 86
Reprove privately, praise publicly. Arnold Glasow Praise 86
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. Alec Waugh Praise 86
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. Andre Gide Praise 84
The sweetest of all sounds is praise. Xenophon Praise 84
Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. Bible Praise 83
Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced. James A. Belasco Praise 83
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears. Rudyard Kipling Praise 83
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. Dag Hammarskjold Praise 82
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life. David Mamet Praise 82
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them. Norman Vincent Peale Praise 81
I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception. Sir Richard Steele Praise 79
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kind. Oscar Wilde Praise 79
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. Greil Marcus Praise 79
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Sydney Smith Praise 78
The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them. Aristotle Praise 77
I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser. Osbert Sitwell Praise 77
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far. Will Rogers Praise 76
It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy. Philip Sidney Praise 75
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. Samuel Johnson Praise 75
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection. J. B. Yeats Praise 75
He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity. John Milton Praise 75
To praise is an investment in happiness. George M. Adams Praise 74
Among the smaller duties of life, I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. Sydney Smith Praise 73
It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy. Jean de La BruyÃ¨re Praise 73
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Vincent Peale Praise 73
That man is great, and he alone,Who serves a greatness not his own,For neither praise nor pelf:Content to know and be unknown:Whole in himself. Edward George BulwerLytton Praise 72
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it. Robert Montgomery Praise 72
We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that. William Penn Praise 72
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. Edward George BulwerLytton Praise 71

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