Compliment Quotes - Page 5

• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  The Friend (1828)

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• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Sports, Dog

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• Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

  William Feather

  Thinking, Next, Honest

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• The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Boys, Facts, Matter

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• The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down.

  Ethel Waters

  Moving, Beer, Glasses

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• I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment.

  Roy Ayers

  Glad, Happened

  Interview with Matt Rogers, www.popmatters.com. February 02, 2004.

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• If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

  Carlisle Floyd

  Stars, Successful, Artist

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• Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.

  Graham Nelson

  Fighting, Player, Games

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• There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.

  Minna Antrim

  Latter, Ifs

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• If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

  Shania Twain

  Doe, Standing Out, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Artist, Abstract Painting

  Interview, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 1950

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• So it's the greatest compliment in the world when people want to hear you sing. That means it feels good to them, so I keep doing it.

  Shelby Lynne

  Mean, People, Feel Good

  "Singer-songwriter Shelby Lynne". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 29, 2010.

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• Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.

  Val Kilmer

  Giving, Born, Modest

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You make me want to be a better man.

  Jack Nicholson

  Love, Romantic, Men

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• I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.

  Richard Cobden

  Names, Coward, World

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.408

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• To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Appreciation, Ceremony, Delicate

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• You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Life, Success, Money

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding.

  Bill Dickey

  Hands, Feelings, Meals

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• Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
  well-timed, sincere words of praise.
  They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

  Sam Walton

  Leadership, Appreciation, Team Building

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• One compliment can keep me going for a whole month.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Months, Whole

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• Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them.

  Richard Carlson

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Appreciate

  Richard Carlson (1998). “The Don't Sweat the Small Stuff Workbook: Exercises, Questions, and Self-Tests to Help You Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life”, Hyperion

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• I don't believe in trouble. Because I think that trouble is sometimes good, sometimes bad. I've been known to be called trouble, which I think is quite a compliment. But I suppose, thinking about it, that my best and worst trouble has always had something to do with a man.

  Beth Orton

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you.

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Advice, Pieces, Saying Thank You

  Marshall Goldsmith (2008). “What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful”, p.118, Profile Books

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• Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

  Thomas Fuller

  Compliments You, Cost, Pay

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• I feel it is a tremendous compliment to a natural competitor to hear "I just don't believe you're natural," because it means you just look that good.

  Kai Greene

  Believe, Mean, Looks

  Source: awesome-body.info

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