There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth!

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

I've always been a sucker for attention.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it "recognition"!

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, "Make me feel important." Never forget this message when working with people.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

There is no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.

You can handle people more successfully by enlisting their feelings than by convincing their reason.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

There's not one wise man among twenty will praise himself.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

When life seems just a dreary grind; and things seem fated to annoy; say something nice to someone else and watch the world light up with joy.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.