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• Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Power, Eulogy, Wealth

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.71, University of Georgia Press

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• Children do learn what they live. Then they grow up to live what they've learned.

  Dorothy Nolte

  Children, Kids, Parenting

  "Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values". Book by Dorothy Nolte and Rachel Harris, January 5, 1998.

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• Blame is safer than praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Criticism, Blame, Critics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.129, Penguin

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• Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Encouragement, Self Esteem, Judging

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• So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Men, Long

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• Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

  William Arthur Ward

  Relationship, Encouragement, Forgive And Forget

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• Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

  Richard DeVos

  Positive, Smile, Hope

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• Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

  Og Mandino

  Responsibility, Cutting, Thinking

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.102, Bantam

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• Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Children, Kindness, Flower

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.104

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• He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

  Seneca the Younger

  May, Doe, Ought

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 624-25, Octavia, 454, 1922.

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• What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Encouraging, Celebrate, Applause

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2015

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• There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Weapons, Victim, Wells

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• The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Envy, Philosopher

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• The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Imperfection, Sometimes

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• Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it.

  Ivan Panin

  Deserving It, Deserve, Deserving

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• What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

  Augustus Hare

  Character, Information, Standards

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• He only profits from praise who values criticism.

  Heinrich Heine

  Good Life, Gossip, Envy

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• Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

  Immanuel Kant

  Peace, War, Evil

  Carl Joachim Friedrich, Immanuel Kant (1969). “Inevitable peace”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

  Wilfred Grenfell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Real

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• You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

  Horace Mann

  Cost, May, Dues

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• It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, People, Easier

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• Neither blame or praise yourself.

  Plutarch

  Blame

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• The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Honor, Shadow

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• We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Admire, Earnest

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• Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Grace, Rehearsal

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 36: Sermons 2121-2181”, p.21, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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