Unmerited Praise Quotes

It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

The trouble is that you get fans who tell you you're great no matter how big an idiot you are.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.

I was not necessarily the best student. I was not necessarily the favourite kid. I wasn't necessarily the most responsible or the most ambitious, and suddenly, when you get given celebrity, you get anointed with all these lovely qualities that you don't have, necessarily, but everyone assumes you must because you're successful.

Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

Aided and abetted by corrupt analysts, patients who have nothing better to do with their lives often use the psychoanalytic situation to transform insignificant childhood hurts into private shrines at which they worship unceasingly the enormity of the offenses committed against them. This solution is immensely flattering to the patients -- as are all forms of unmerited self-aggrandizement; it is immensely profitable for the analysts -- as are all forms pandering to people's vanity; and it is often immensely unpleasant for nearly everyone else in the patient's life.

People automatically assume that if I get anywhere it's because of my association with X, Y or Z, or because I'm pretty.

An overdose of praise is like 10 lumps of sugar in coffee; only a very few people can swallow it.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

Do not seek prizes that aren't worth getting.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.

Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.