Donald Trump Quotes

It's always nice to hear nice things, but I don't suddenly go out and think I'm the best thing since sliced bread.

Don't thank the lord, I gave you that compliment... Thank me.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

Treasure is the kind of thing you dig up... or bury! And when people say, 'Oh, he's an icon,' well, an icon is a very old painting hanging in a Russian church! If you want to say something, say something nice about me. Don't call me a national treasure.

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

A wise person would never be eager to ask for acknowledgment of his or her contribution.

People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything.

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.

I never want to get caught up in praises. Never want to get caught up in people telling me how good I am.

We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

Players like people saying good things about them and, of course, no one is ever wrong when they do that, but they always are when they say bad stuff.

I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself.

He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.