Ferocity Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

If unconditional love and genuine enthusiasm are present, praise isn't necessary. If they're absent, praise won't help.

— Alfie Kohn

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

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

But the most obvious fact about praise — whether of God or anything — strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of…

— C. S. Lewis

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

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

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

— William Penn

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only…

— Dale Carnegie

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

— Phyllis McGinley

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

— Latin Proverb