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A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. – Mark Twain
Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated. – Alexander Osborn
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved. – Michel de Montaigne
Praise in public criticize in private. – Vince Lombardi
We over-praise leaders when organizations succeed and over-blame them when organizations fail. Success or failure depends on the environment as much as or even more than the leader. Effective leaders navigate and influence the environment to enable key success factors for their followers – Med Jones
Blessed is he who has learned To admire but not envy, To follow but not imitate, To praise but not flatter, And to lead but not manipulate. – William Arthur Ward
Their silence is sufficient praise. – Terence
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems. – Anna Garlin Spencer
?Tis those who reverence the old That are the men versed in the Faith; Worthy of praise while in this life, And happy in the life to come. – Buddhist
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
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
Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly. – Publilius Syrus
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
As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so wise men falter not amidst blame or praise. – The Dhammapada
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods. – Seneca
Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods. – Seneca
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend. – Alexander Pope
Everything that is acknowledges the blessing of existence. Shalt not thou, by a similar acknowledgment, be happy? If thou pay due attention to sounds, thou shalt hear the praise of the Creator celebrated by the whole creation. – Nakhshabi
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others. – Arnold Bennett
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones. – William Shakespeare
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. – William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 3 scene 2
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents. – Phyllis Mcginley
He only profits from praise who values criticism. – Heinrich Heine
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. – Karl Kraus
His action no applause invites Who simply good with good repays; He only justly merits praise Who wrongful deeds with kind requites.* – Panchatantra

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