Desire Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The refusal of praise often proceeds from a desire to have it repeated.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— Dean Smith

Usually we praise only to be praised.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

— Cullen Hightower

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 so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.

— Carl Lentz

If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise

— Samuel Johnson

Praise behaviour that you want repeated

— Dean Smith

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

— Joanne Greenberg

Praise is great, but it's also an incentive.

— Joshua Kimmich