Age Quote by Giacomo Leopardi

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise

— Latin Proverb

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

— Joseph P. Farrell

Praise is deeper than the lips

— Robert Browning

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

— Francis Bacon

We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?

— Jean Rostand

“It's funny, I wonder why we like being praised. There's no money in it. Fame? How famous could we get? . . . Aren't…

— Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Children are accustomed to a continual stream of criticisms and praise, but adults can go weeks without a compliment while enduring criticism both at…

— Scott Adams

He does not praise himself - yet he is respectable.

— Laozi