Think & Achieve by Elijah Chai - HTML preview

PRAISE

Quotes

1

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting the quill back in the goose.

— Fred Allen

2

Well done is better than well said.

— Benjamin Franklin

3

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House — with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dines alone.

— John F. Kennedy

4

They say, “Gee, you look great.” That means they thought you looked like hell before.

 — Richard M. Nixon

5

The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on thick and exactly in the right places.

— Samuel Butler

6

His life was gentle and the elements so mixed in him that nature might stand on its feet and say to all the world — this was a man!

— William Shakespeare

7

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me — and my mother would have believed it.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

8

We recognize that flattery is poison, but its perfume intoxicates us.

— Charles Varlet de La Grange

9

Baloney is the unvarnished lie laid on so thick you hate it. Blarney is flattery laid on so thin you love it.

— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

10

Flattery is all right — if you don’t inhale.

— Adlai E. Stevenson

11

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.

— Kin Hubbard

12

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

— Victor Hugo

13

Let us now praise famous men, and our fathers that begat us.

— Ecclesiasticus 44:1

14

I will praise any man that will praise me.

— William Shakespeare

15

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

— Josh Billings

16

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

— Mark Twain

17

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

— Thomas Fuller

18

Praise is the only gift which people are really grateful.

— Marguerite, Countess of Blessington

19

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

— Jonathan Brown, on Diego Velazquez

20

A man doesn’t live by bread alone. He needs buttering up once in a while.

— Robert H. Henry

21

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

— George Bernard Shaw

22

The greatest honor that can come to man is the appreciation and high regard of his fellow man.

— H. G. Mendelson

Sayings

1

One has only to die to be praised.

— German proverb

2

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

3

If you think that praise is due, now’s the time to show it, ‘cause a man can’t read his tombstone when he’s dead.

4

A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than a directory of praise following success.

5

An actor is like a cigar; the more you puff him the smaller he gets.

Jokes

1

Novice golfer to husband, teeing off: “Now tell me if you notice anything I’m doing right.”

2

The kindhearted department head was delighted when a less-than-dazzling employee decided to move on, but stumped when he was asked for a recommendation. Finally, after much head-scratching, he wrote, “Mr. Marks worked for me for a long time, and when you have known him as long as I have, you will undoubtedly share my opinion of him.”