False praise is worse than no praise.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
If everybody thinks you're amazing, you probably are doing something wrong.
When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.
I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
