Believe Quote by Jean Rostand

Those who know how to praise also know how to lie.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

— Joseph P. Farrell

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

— Phyllis McGinley

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

— Dale Carnegie

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

People are very sincere in their praise, and you can't take it lightly.

— Joan Jett

If you're sincere, praise is effective. If you're insincere, it's manipulative.

— Zig Ziglar

I don't know that praise is always a good thing.

— Paul Dano

If youre sincere, praise is effective. If youre insincere, its manipulative.

— Anonymous

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