Well Deserved Praise Quotes

#1. Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

Phyllis McGinley

#2. This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

Lemony Snicket

#3. There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.

Wallace Shawn

#4. To Enjoy Satisfaction Of Purpose Is To Submit To Eternal Principles Of The Kingdom Of God

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.

Santosh Kalwar

#6. Most people like praise ... When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

Joseph P. Farrell

#7. To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel,
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will.

Edmund Spenser

#9. Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

Jacque Fresco

#10. Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.

John Wooden

#11. Don't defoul the air. It ill becomes you. - Oromis

Christopher Paolini

#12. They came out of the vault intoxicated, not by the mere thought of food, but by the consciousness that they too were of use in the world and did not live in vain, and had deserved the praise and thanks which Tonya would shower on them at home.

Boris Pasternak

#13. I have long known that splendour of reputation is not to be counted among the necessaries of life, and therefore shall not much repine if praise be withheld till it is better deserved.

Samuel Johnson

#14. If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.

Hortense Odlum

#15. A wise leader doesn't just follow but discover the path.

Pearl Zhu