#praise

For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#focus #hear #hurtful #praises #reason

I did not approve of your action—I was merely congratulating myself. What you mistook for clapping was merely me giving myself multiple high fives.
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— Jarod Kintz

#applaud #applause #approve #clap #clapping

I will only praise someone who can't take anything away from me. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#away #i #me #only #praise

Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational-quotes #life #motivational #praise #success

Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#openly #praise #reprove #secret #them

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value. ↗

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

#any #cannot #certain #change #criticism

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#condemns #even #his #information #own

I think I started out because I was desperate for approval and acceptance and praise. Some actors never break away from that. They're after that validation their whole life. ↗

— Judge Reinhold

#after #approval #away #because #break

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#praise #men

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. ↗

— Alec Waugh

#confident #desires #doubting #himself #his