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Quotes about Compliments

Bailey was strangely warmed by his compliments. It was an odd feeling to be flattered and want to punch a man at the same time. It was so confusing to hold both feelings at once ... her skin was getting a little itchy.
- Mary Connealy
Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out
- Dale Carnegie
Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.
- Dale Carnegie
People must have affirmation and praise in order to maintain a high level of performance. Withholding negative or critical comments is not nearly as important as giving positive input through compliments and praise.
- John Maxwell
Don't let people's compliments go to your head, and don't let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you'll be ruled by what other people think of you.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Olympic Style lifting compliments sprint training perfectly. It does this by making sure everything in the body is 'fully connected.' This is based on the principle that all movements have a kinetic chain.
- Linford Christie
A man who does not love praise is not a full man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I hope your mamma is quite well?" This unexpected inquiry put me into such a difficulty that I began saying in the absurdest way that if there had been any such person I had no doubt that she would have been quite well and would have been very much obliged and would have sent her compliments, when the nurse came to my rescue.
- Charles Dickens
When complimented, a sincere "thank you" is the only response required.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.
- Oscar Wilde
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
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
- Oscar Wilde