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Here are the best motivational quotes and sayings for 2023 about praise that will inspire appreciation and gratitude.
What Is Praise Sayings
1. “Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you’ve toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can’t get too much” – Christoph Waltz
2. “Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it” – C. S. Lewis
3. “Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes, or envy struck dumb” – Thomas Browne
4. “Praise is just like an addiction. The more you get it, the more of it you need just to stay even” – Taylor Jenkins Reid
5. “Praise is the weapon God gives you to leverage the negative circumstances of your life” – David Evans
Short Quotes About Praise
6. “Praise little, dispraise less” – Benjamin Franklin
7. “Praise is the practice of art” – William Blake
8. “What you praise you increase” – Catherine Ponder
9. “True praise leads to true peace” – Lailah Gifty Akita
10. “Praise is a pure thought” – Lailah Gifty Akita
Funny Quotes About Self Praise
11. “Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise” – Alexander Pope
12. “It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame” – Thomas Fuller
13. “We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
14. “He who praises everybody, praises nobody” – Samuel Johnson
15. “Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise” – Wendell Phillips
16. “A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
17. “Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing” – Arnold H. Glasow
18. “When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time” – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Quotes About Power Of Praise
19. “Praise, like sunlight, helps all things to grow” – Croft M. Pentz
20. “To praise is an investment in happiness” – David Dunn
21. “We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory” – Cicero
22. “There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise” – Roger Ascham
23. “Every time you praise something, every time you appreciate something, every time you feel good about something, you are telling the Universe, “More of this, Please.” You need never again make another verbal statement of this intent, and if you were allowing your cork to float – all good things would flow to you” – Abraham Hicks
24. “Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child” – Phyllis McGinley
25. “Praise is great, but it’s also an incentive” – Joshua Kimmich
26. “We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad” – Charles Fillmore
Deep Sayings About Praise
27. “If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it” – Norman Macdonald
28. “Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard” – Aristotle
29. “Praise works best at the start, before the miracle, before the breakthrough, before the restoration” – Brian Houston
30. “The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards” – J. R. R. Tolkien
31. “Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity” – Samuel Johnson
32. “He only profits from praise who values criticism” – Heinrich Heine
33. “There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man” – Owen Feltham
34. “A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotes For Praising Someone
35. “In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame” – Friedrich Nietzsche
36. “If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics” – Chris Brogan
37. “One should use praise to recognize what one is not” – Elias Canetti
38. “True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
39. “Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don’t swallow it” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
40. “The trouble with most of us is that we’d rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism” – Norman Vincent Peale
41. “You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one” – John Wooden
42. “Praise is a very used, but always new, of surrendering to vanity” – José de Alencar
43. “Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame” – Pearl S. Buck
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