Quotes about compliments
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Stop giving complaints to people about what you can't do. Start giving compliments to God for what you can do. It'll amaze you you'll see yourself doing amazingly!
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder
Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what’s already done well blames show them what’s yet to be done well.
Raheel Farooq -
Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.
Miya Yamanouchi - Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
The saying 'flattery gets you everywhere' appalls me. If you're going to pay someone a compliment make sure it's 100% genuine or not at all.-Flattery is deception and who wants to be lied to?
Molière - The Misanthrope
I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere I find nothing but base flattery, injustice , self-interest, deceit and roguery. I cannot bear it any longer; I'm furious; and my intention is to break with all mankind.
Molière - The Misanthrope
We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments
Socrates -
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
Jessica Sorensen - The Redemption of Callie & Kayden
I shrug and shuffle my toe across the carpet in front of me, feeling silly. "So? It's a compliment being like you." All the humor evaporates from his face and his honey-brown eyes. Within seconds he has me in his arms and he hugs me like I'm the most important thing in the world to him. "Don't ever change, Callie Lawrence," he whispers in my hair. "Promise me you won't.
Sunday Adelaja -
If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not
Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Ladder
People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
Sappho -
...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly...
Ben Marcus - Notable American Women
When a man modifies or adorns a woman's name, or dispatches an endearment into her vicinity, he is attempting at once to alter and deny her, to dilute the privacy of the category she has inherited and to require that she respond as someone quite less than herself.
Claire North - The Sudden Appearance of Hope
Wow, that is so deep.'He meant it, of course.'You're really real,' he added breathily. 'Say something else.'I decided he wasn't worth punching, and walked away.
Debasish Mridha -
You are prettier than you can imagine.
Debasish Mridha -
When you told me, “You are my star,” my heart danced with joy because that was the best sentence that I have ever heard.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana - N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
People don't care about being duped as long as they're happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence 'self-duprication' becomes a habit.
Sandra Cisneros -
Once you tell a man he's pretty, there's no taking it back. They think they're pretty all the time, and I suppose, in a way, they are. It's got to do with believing it.
Gabrielle Zevin - The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.
Oscar Wilde - Lady Windermere's Fan
I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
Steve Maraboli - and Being Free
I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater.
Alice Clayton - Wallbanger
Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.
Anna Godbersen - Rumors
Ah well that I can't tell you." Diana ducked her head so that the brim of her bonnet covered her face. "Some things must remain a mystery and for now I think I'll keep my opinion of you and your compliments to myself.
E.A. Bucchianeri - Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Stop teasing you two,” Suzy jumped in, “not all of Kathy’s ideas are wacky.”“Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?
Tara Mohr - Your Message
Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around us understand or approve.
Tara Mohr - Your Message
Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around s understand or approve.
Criss Jami - Killosophy
When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
Steve Goodier - Prescription for Peace: Sixty-Second Readings to Help You Build a Better Life
Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.
Israelmore Ayivor -
There is an easy way to silence your critics; just try to do what they say you can't do. If they are still not content, do more of it! Keep doing it until you become a master. Then look around, and you will see fewer critics and many compliments!
Thomas Wolfe -
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.
Oscar Wilde -
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Samuel Butler -
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
Joyce Rachelle -
Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.
Polly Shulman - The Grimm Legacy
So how did you get this job, anyway?' I asked.'My science teacher.''Why'd he pick you?''For my brains and good looks, obviously.''Yeah, right. My social studies teacher picked me, but I can't really figure out why."'For your brains and good looks, obviously.''Um, thanks.' Had Aaron just complimented me? Wow.
Louise Bay - Calling Me Back
I was as terrible at giving compliments as I was at receiving them.
Ashly Lorenzana -
You can always tell when someone deserves the praise and recognition they receive, because it humbles them rather than inflating their ego.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance and Other Essays
You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.
H. Rider Haggard - She
...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.
Michael Clarke -
This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.
David Chiles -
Pay it forward with free compliments. They are returned in due time. NetworkEtiquette.net
Madeleine L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?""I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father.""Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.
William Faulkner - Soldiers' Pay
Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.
Sabrina Newby -
True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.
Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes
Compliments land assoft and gentle on my earsas a butterfly.
Leslea Wahl - The Perfect Blindside
Why? As much fun as a hospital sounds, I'd rather spend the evening dancing with an amazing, smart, funny, interesting, beautiful girl who has the most incredible green eyes I've ever seen. Sophie, will you go to the dance with me?