Behavior Quote by Carol S. Dweck

Praise is essential in developing the right attitude toward learning and toward school.

— Marva Collins

Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.

— Jude Bijou

The only time people do not like praise is when too much of it is going toward someone else.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.

— Dorothy Day

Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.

— David Hume

Praise is a powerful people-builder. Catch individuals doing something right.

— Brian Tracy

Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

— Laozi

Praise is sometimes a good thing for the diffident and the despondent. It teaches them properly to rely on the kindness of others.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Only praise behavior that you want to be repeated. Never use false praise.

— Dean Smith

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

— Elias Canetti

Praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance.

— Carol S. Dweck

We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld