Abuse Quote by 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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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 the reflection of virtue.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Joseph P. Farrell

Praise is good. Some people over-praise, though. Genuine appreciation is rare to come by.

— Raashi Khanna

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

— Paul Dano

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

— Phyllis McGinley

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

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

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 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