Praise Seeking Quotes

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration that I could feel myself to be a logical extension of my Uncle Alex, Uncle Zoli, and my father, in that order.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

The love of admiration leads to fraud, much more than the love of commendation; but, on the other hand, the latter is much more likely to spoil our: good actions by the substitution of an inferior motive.

I don't look for praise.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

When you left this one theater in Norfolk, the actors had to walk through the lobby to get out to the street. People would see you and say nice things, tell you that you were good. So, pretty soon I'm pretending to forget things backstage, going through the lobby a couple of times.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.