Believe Quote by Richard Steele

Pleasure isn't only in getting praised, its even more in praising others.

— Senoraroy

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

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute…

— Samuel Johnson

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.

— Jean Paul

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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

— Samuel Johnson

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.

— Richard Steele

It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.

— N'Golo Kante

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

— Sri Chinmoy