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A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them. -
Samuel Johnson
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The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain. -
Samuel Johnson
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Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears. -
Rudyard Kipling
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. -
Orison Swett Marden
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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. -
Orison Swett Marden
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We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad. -
Charles Fillmore
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There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket. -
Molière
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What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it ''recognition''! -
William James
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Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing. -
Henry Jacobsen
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I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward. -
William Dean Howells
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How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course? -
Horace
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise. -
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. -
Albert Einstein
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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. -
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man. -
Owen Felltham
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