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• Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, People, Criticism

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• If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

  Blaise Pascal

  May, Conviction, Disregard

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• Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.

  Barbara Holland

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

  Gertrude Stein

  Thinking, Think Twice, Like Me

  Gertrude Stein (1956). “Stanzas in meditation, and other poems, 1929-1933”

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• The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Work, Fusion, Best Work

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1992). “The Astonishing World: Essays”, Houghton Mifflin

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• I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Leadership, Believe, Order

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

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• Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Merit

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• Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

  William Shenstone

  Past

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”

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• I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

  Carolyn Wells

  Christian, Grace, Biographies

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.

  Samuel Johnson

  Sports, Doe, Deceiving

  Samuel Johnson (1800). “The Idler: With Additional Essays”, p.86

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• Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

  Dorothy Day

  Too Much, Feels

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• Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.

  Hannah More

  Substitutes, Right Thing

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.534

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• Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
  Finds in adversity the seed of praise.

  Ovid

  Honesty, Adversity, Evil

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• Applause abates diligence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Diligence, Applause

  Samuel Johnson (1797). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).”, p.29

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• Though strength be wanting, the will to action
  Merits praise.

  Ovid

  Merit, Action

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• Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Rain, Sunshine, Inspire

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1875). “We and Our Neighbors: Or, The Records of an Unfashionable Street: (Sequel to "My Wife and I.") A Novel”, p.325

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• In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Men, Firsts

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• My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I achieve great things, it is the work of their hands; they are splendid people and their absolute love of their children places them above the highest praise. It cloaks all of their shortcomings, shortcomings that may have resulted from a difficult life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mother, Children, Father

  Letter to M.M. Chekhov, July 29, 1877.

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• Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a great man by a discriminating criticism. Hero-worship, which paints a faultless monster, whom the world never saw, is like those modern pictures which are a blaze of light without any shadow.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Hero, Men, Light

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• Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teacher

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.16, Jaico Publishing House

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• The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Humble, Doe

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• Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Beauty, Beautiful, Way

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• Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Made, Modest, Insolent

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• Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

  Thomas Paine

  Encouraging, Encouragement, Motivation

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• If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Would Be, Revelations

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