Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
- Mary Kay Ash

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

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.
-- Henry Ward Beecher

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a "but."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

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

“Blame is safer than praise”
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Find the good -- and praise it."
-- Alex Hailey

“I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.”
~ Thomas Jefferson

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
- Lao Tzu

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
- Norman Vincent Peale

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
- Norman Vincent Peale

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

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.
-- Wendell Phillips

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
-- Will Rogers

“It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness.”
-- Carl Sagan

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

“Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.”
- Socrates

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
-- Studs Terkel

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.
-- Henry David Thoreau

“We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess”
-- Mark Twain

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
-- Mark Twain

A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate.
-- Oprah Winfrey