Accomplishment Quote by Anonymous

“Affirmation, in contrast to flattery, requires seeing someone well enough to sense what to affirm, knowing someone well enough to be aware of what…

— Dale Carnegie

The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about…

— Edith Sitwell

One of the most flattering things is when other people are seeing what you're doing and then replicating that kind of thing.

— Willam Belli

To be flattered is grateful, even when we know that our praises are not believed by those who pronounce them; for they prove, at…

— Samuel Johnson

I’m even flattered! It’s what success is like. I’m happy I seem unreal to them, it means I’m doing a good job,

— Valeria Lukyanova

Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether…

— Samuel Johnson

It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.

— N'Golo Kante

Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

It's always flattering when others are talking about you.

— Michael Laudrup

Flattery is so necessary to us that we flatter one another just to be flattered in return.

— Marjorie Bowen

Self-affirmbuild yourself up with honest and genuine praise.

— Lorii Myers

Affirmations are so easy that some people think they are too simple to be effective.

— Ruth Fishel