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.
~ Steve Maraboli
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.
~ Alice Clayton
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
~ Sunday Adelaja
Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.
~ Socrates
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.
~ Claire North
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.
~ Ben Marcus
...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly...
~ Sappho
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.
~ Israelmore Ayivor
People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
~ Jane Austen
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.
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.
~ Criss Jami
To increase the odds of being thanked, some people compliment some people; some make kids.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.
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?
~ Miya Yamanouchi
Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.
~ Raheel Farooq
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
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
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.
~ Sandra Cisneros
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.
~ Oscar Wilde
Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Stop teasing you two,” Suzy jumped in, “not all of Kathy’s ideas are wacky.”“Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?
~ E.a. Bucchianeri
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!
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!
When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.
Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.
~ Steve Goodier
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
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.
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.
~ Anna Godbersen
Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.
~ Joyce Rachelle
We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.
~ Samuel Butler
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?
~ Leslea Wahl
True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.
~ Sabrina Newby
Compliments land assoft and gentle on my earsas a butterfly.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
You can always tell when someone deserves the praise and recognition they receive, because it humbles them rather than inflating their ego.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
I was as terrible at giving compliments as I was at receiving them.
~ Louise Bay
You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.
~ William Faulkner
...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.
~ H. Rider Haggard
