Can't Take Compliments Quotes

#1. Most people don't know how to take compliments. That's the biggest problem in America - we're hesitant to give compliments and embarrassed at getting them.

Letitia Baldrige

#2. I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

James Taylor

#3. He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.

Louise Rennison

#4. Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.

Alice Clayton

#5. I can take criticisms but not compliments.

James Taylor

#6. I have been thinking about you a great deal this summer; having somebody take an interest in me after all these years makes me feel as though I had found a sort of family. It seems as though I belonged to somebody now, and it's a very comfortable sensation.

Jean Webster

#7. To make the sea your own, to watch over it, to brood your very soul into it, to accept it and love it as though only it mattered and existed.

Jack Kerouac

#8. My room was made up of strange, random things, but then, so was I.

Jamie McGuire

#9. It's great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you're doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

#10. If Joanie dies before me, I wonder if I'll ever be with another woman. I can't imagine going through all of the preliminary stuff - the talk, the chatter, the dinners. I'd have to take someone places, explain my history, make jokes, dole out compliments, hold back farts.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#11. No wonder you're so successful in your business. You're a scoundrel." "Why thank you, sweetheart. That's so nice of you to say." "Only you would take being called a scoundrel and a tempting devil as compliments." "Coming from you, they're the best compliments I've ever received.

Marie Force

#12. I think you can learn a lot about a guy from the way that he talks to you and the way that he compliments you. If he's complimenting you when you're just walking down the street and it's something completely pure and of the moment, then that's something you can take to heart.

Aly Michalka

#13. People like him had these weird thick skins. You insult them to their face and it whistles past their ears. They take irony as compliments and barely even notice your wittiest retorts. When

Niels Saunders

#14. You look wonderful", Jason said.
"No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie."
"Then by all means take it off.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#15. I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

Louisa May Alcott

#16. Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

Jane Austen

#17. When people say (nice) things you take them as compliments and it's nice, but it won't help you win your next game. The thing I am trying to keep in mind is that relying on my past performance will not make me win my next game, it'll only get in my way.

Greg Maddux

#18. There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#19. I take compliments and I take constructive criticism. Not everyone loves you. It's the way you react as a footballer. I use it all to make me play better.

Timothy F. Cahill

#20. I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

Laurie Anderson

#21. Receive compliments gracefully instead of countering with a disclaimer such as, "Oh, this ratty old thing?" Try this instead: "Thank you." Period. Take

Jen Sincero

#22. After years of self deprecating behavior, I've never learned how to properly take a compliment. A part of me wants to argue with him, to tell him there's nothing special about me.

Brynna Gabrielson

#23. The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

Douglas William Jerrold

#24. I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.

Samantha Harvey

#25. Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#26. I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Jane Austen

#27. The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds.

Plutarch