Applause Quote by Saint John Chrysostom

I do not know whether anyone has ever succeeded in not enjoying praise. And, if he enjoys it, he naturally wants to receive it.…

— John Chrysostom

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

— Alfie Kohn

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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Throughout my entire career, I don't think I've ever had a moment of strictly praise. I think, through it all, there was always a…

— Ice Spice

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 is so powerful that it opens the eyes of people who don't want to see.

— Carl Lentz

Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it.

— Anonymous

It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from…

— Jean de la Bruyere

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

— Anonymous