I can live for two months on a good compliment. Mark Twain Compliment, Praise You May Also Like The greatest honor that can come to a man is the appreciation and high regard of his fellow men. By H. G. Mendelson Appreciation, Compliment, Praise A man doesn’t live by bread alone. He needs buttering up once in a while. By Robert H. Henry Funny, Praise Flattery is all right—if you don’t inhale. By Adlai Stevenson Compliment, Funny, Praise A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than a dictionary of praise following success. By Anonymous Encouragement, Failure, Leadership, Praise, Success The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on thick and exactly in the right places. By Samuel Butler Funny, Praise 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. By Anonymous Death, Praise You May Also Like from Mark Twain You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. By Mark Twain Creativity, Imagination The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. By Mark Twain Optimist, Pessimist, Wise I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much of it. By Mark Twain Ignorance, Stupidity He would come in and say he changed his mind—which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn’t have any. By Mark Twain Decision, Funny, Mind By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean. By Mark Twain Adversity Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. By Mark Twain Duty
The greatest honor that can come to a man is the appreciation and high regard of his fellow men. By H. G. Mendelson Appreciation, Compliment, Praise
A man doesn’t live by bread alone. He needs buttering up once in a while. By Robert H. Henry Funny, Praise
A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than a dictionary of praise following success. By Anonymous Encouragement, Failure, Leadership, Praise, Success
The advantage of doing one’s praising for oneself is that one can lay it on thick and exactly in the right places. By Samuel Butler Funny, Praise
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. By Anonymous Death, Praise
You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. By Mark Twain Creativity, Imagination
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. By Mark Twain Optimist, Pessimist, Wise
I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much of it. By Mark Twain Ignorance, Stupidity
He would come in and say he changed his mind—which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn’t have any. By Mark Twain Decision, Funny, Mind
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. By Mark Twain Duty
