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The best way to get praise is to die.
-Italian Proverb
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People blame themselves for the purpose of being praised.
-Proverb
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Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.
-Proverb
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
-Proverb
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To praise is an investment in happiness.
-George M. Adams
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Please all, and you will please none.
-Aesop
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Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
-Aristotle
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Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
-Mary Kay Ash
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Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people.
-Mary Kay Ash
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There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
-Mary Kay Ash
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make me feel important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
-Mary Kay Ash
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No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
-Mary Kay Ash
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There are two things people want more than sex and money -- recognition and praise.
-Mary Kay Ash
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The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
-Hosea Ballou
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When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.
-Red Barber
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The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.
-James Barrie
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I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
-Ethel Barrymore
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Evaluate what you want -- because what gets measured, gets produced.
-James A. Belasco
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Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips.
-Bible
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Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. Ecclesiasticus 15:9
-Bible
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Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
-Bible
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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
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Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.
-Nicholas Boileau
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Books about Praise
