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• In an ideal state of society we never lose sight of the womanliness of women…why should it be considered a compliment to any woman to be told she writes, paints, sings, talks, or even thinks, like a man?

  Elizabeth Wordsworth

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

  Bruce Lee

  Giving, Effort, Desire

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.295, Tuttle Publishing

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• Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of birds singing and spring showers. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it is in the form of a material gift, a compliment or a prayer.

  Deepak Chopra

  Prayer, Spring, Bird

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• The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Happiness, Smile, Heartfelt

  The Friend (1828)

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• The day when a Frenchman switches from the formality of vous to the familiarity of tu is a day to be taken seriously. It is an unmistakable signal that he has decided - after weeks or months or sometimes years - that he likes you. It would be chulish and unfriendly of you not to return the compliment. And so, just when you are at last feeling comfortable with vous and all the plurals that go with it, you are thrust headlong in to the singular world of tu.

  Peter Mayle

  Taken, Years, Feelings

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• The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth , the purity of your soul

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Soul, Everyday

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• I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different. What this mob intends as a grievous insult, I take as a compliment. Long live equal rights.

  Adam Bandt

  Hate, Party, Australia

  FaceBook post by Adam Bandt from Feb 12, 2013

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• I'll leave you with one that I have hanging on my office wall, compliments of Nike: Impossible is nothing.

  Muhammad Ali

  Nike, Wall, Office

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• When someone compliments me on my physique, positive attitude, or enthusiasm, I walk on air the rest of the day.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Attitude, Bodybuilding

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• Take time to compliment people every day. Do it sincerely and with no desire to gain anything but a smile in return.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Bodybuilding, People

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• We have moments of such clarity, of such appreciation of the incredible web of interconnected events that carry us from breath to breath, day to day, as long as we live-and the next moment we fret about how much we weigh. Or who we didn't send a Valentine. Or who forgot to compliment the dinner. Or whatever.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Appreciation, Valentine, Long

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know every last thing about you, only it isn't a compliment, it is just efficient, a person getting more quickly to the end of you. Correction - dogs do want to know every last thing about you. They take in the smell of you, they know from the next room, asleep, when a mood settles over you. The difference is there's not an end to it.

  Amy Hempel

  Dog, Smell, Differences

  Amy Hempel (2010). “The Dog of the Marriage: Stories”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Women have to embrace ambition if they want to. I had a lot of trouble taking compliments in the beginning, and it's really important for women to embrace their title.

  Tory Burch

  Ambition, Important, Titles

  "Tory Burch Explains The Importance Of Having Male Mentors" by Meredith Lepore, www.businessinsider.com. April 23, 2014.

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• In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They compliment its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Summer, Men, Weather

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.55, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Feigning, Merry

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. [110]

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• Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

  Mary Schmich

  Compliments You, Succeed, Insult

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

  Mark Twain

  Criticism, Pay, Persons

  Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”

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• The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

  Nathaniel Branden

  Essentials, Humans, Paid

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.273, Penguin

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• You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

  Herbert Hoover

  Girl, Country, Mean

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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• Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

  Desmond Morris

  Long, Return, Monk

  desmond morris (1967). “tha naked ape”

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• I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as I did the flattering compliments of the Prince of Wales.

  P. T. Barnum

  Children, Laughing, Exhibitions

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• My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

  Tori Spelling

  Stories, Kind, Life Story

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• I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me.

  Jennifer Garner

  Children, Nice, Middle Child

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• The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

  Jeff Abbott

  Reading, Entertainment, Notes

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• Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea.

  Jethro Tull

  Sea, Forever, Skins

  Song: Budapest

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