Randy Pausch Quotes

If you can't reward, then you should thank.

Someone who feels appreciated will always be & do more than expected. This holds true in love & business.

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

When I was young, I liked to be acknowledged in class by little gestures such as a small red star for doing something good. Now that I'm older, I still want to be acknowledged for good work.

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

It's nice to be recognized and rewarded if people in the game think you are making an impact.

We definitely like to celebrate the wins, that's for sure.

It's always good to receive recognition for your work.

A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

Making the extra effort to say thanks in a genuine, personal manner goes a long way. It is pleasurable to do, and it encourages more of the same good behavior.

Gratitude is a humble emotion. It expresses itself in a thousand ways, from a sincere thank you to friend or stranger, to the mute, up-reaching acknowledgment to God--not for the gifts of this day only, but for the day itself; not for what we believe will be ours in the future, but for the bounty of the past.

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.

This is the time to speak the word of appreciation.

Thank you for that experience.

We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God, but return thanks for them.

There's no way I could pay you back but my plan is to show you that I understand, you are appreciated

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

I once succumbed to the fad of fasting and went for six days and nights without eating. It wasn't difficult. I was less hungry at the end of the sixth day than I was at the end of the second. Yet I know, as you know, people who would think they had committed a crime if they let their families or employees go for six days without food; but they will let them go for six days, and six weeks, and sometimes sixty years without giving them the hearty appreciation that they crave almost as much as they crave food.

How do we thank an angel? Somehow I don’t think a fruit basket will do the trick." ~ Amun

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?

Let the good service of well-deservers be never rewarded with loss. Let their thanks be such as may encourage more strivers for the like.