Top 42 Quotes On Flattery And Praise
#1. We must define flattery and praise; they are distinct. Trajan was encouraged to virtue by the panegyric Pliny; Tiberius became obstinate in vice from the flattery of his senators.
Louis XVI Of France
#3. Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise.
Scott Adams
#4. Erasmus says that you should praise a ruler even for qualities he does not have. For the flattery gives him to think. And the qualities he presently lacks, he might go to work on them.
Hilary Mantel
#5. You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won't do a thing unless you believe it yourself.
Criss Jami
#6. I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.
Paula Abdul
#7. Faith," she says, "is a catch-and-release sport. And standing at the altar receiving the bread and wine is the release part.
Rachel Held Evans
#8. The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
#9. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral.
Scott Adams
#11. American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.
Andy Rooney
#12. Flatterers should be mistrusted, especially when they praise the dead. To seek a place in society is self-serving, but to seek one in history affects everyone.
Bauvard
#13. Never divulge secrets to acquaintances.
Never betray old friends for new ones.
Never mistake flattery for praise.
Never rely on dishonorable people.
Never trust your enemy's friends.
Never mistake someone's kindness for weakness.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#14. Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid the audience isn't going to respond. But the audience is so hungry for anything that's a bit original, personal, or different.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#15. Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
Anne Bradstreet
#16. I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?
LeBron James
#17. Heavenly Father, for the blessings of this food and these friends and our families, we thank you. In Jesus's name, amen.
William Kent Krueger
#18. I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.
Robin Hobb
#19. It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.
Jean Paul
#20. Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends
Fraser Young
#21. The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.
David Arquette
#22. All rooms move. Each of them swings in a pendulum motion between evening and morning, moving its inhabitants closer to the unknown land where they will be no more. But
Leena Krohn
#23. Dog's owners don't call me. It's their neighbors or family members. We call them the whistleblowers, but it's more like the pack. It's making sure that one pack member gets in line. Before it was the owners, now it's the community.
Cesar Millan
#25. Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.
Simon Cowell
#26. They are like men: if bold, the better of scolding; if timid, the better of praise and flattery.
Lew Wallace
#27. I am not one of those who left the land to the mercy of its enemies. Their flattery leaves me cold, my songs are not for them to praise.
Anna Akhmatova
#29. There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
Richard Steele
#30. But unlike Jack, Bobby had not been groomed to be a candidate, and he was constitutionally incapable of the flattery and false praise with which politicians like Johnson got others to do their daily bidding.
Jonathan Darman
#31. The key to your success on planet earth is to find the field where your gift would be of the highest benefit
Sunday Adelaja
#32. Honest people are a refuge: You know they mean what they say; you know they will not say one thing to your face and another behind your back; you know they will tell you when they think you have failed - and for this reason their praise cannot be mistaken for mere flattery.
Sam Harris
#33. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Samuel Johnson
#34. Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.
Leon Askin
#35. Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#36. It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
Jean Paul
#37. Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
And that is why their lovers are afraid
To tell them a plain story.
William Butler Yeats
#38. If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.
Brian Reynolds Myers
#39. In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning.
Leo Tolstoy
#40. I made a conscious effort to make a record that would affect people in a good way rather than the last one, which affected people in a bad way.
Daniel Johns
#41. Did you find your shit? You've got to watch the mota Thurston, your fuckin' memory just goes out the window.
R. John Pritchard
#42. Because all men are apt to flatter themselves, to entertain the addition of other men's praises is most perilous.
Walter Raleigh
