Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side. — Bernie Siegel
Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses. — Joyce Meyer
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship. — Oscar Wilde
Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools. — Richard Steele
You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend. — Marty Feldman
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. — Plautus
Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. — Socrates
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people. — Charles Dickens
Treat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, “Thank you. — Marshall Goldsmith
Tell the person next to you that they look nice today. If you are alone, tell yourself. — Markiplier
Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming. — Joyce Meyer
I can live for two months on a good compliment. — Mark Twain
Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate about them. — Richard Carlson
Short Compliments You Quotes
It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that. — Don Rickles
Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. — Thomas Chalmers
To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club. — Zig Ziglar
When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates. — Tal Ben-Shahar
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. — Italian Proverbs
Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. — Dale Carnegie
To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends. — Benjamin Franklin
The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold. — Evel Knievel
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation. — Dale Carnegie
Nice words are free, so choose ones that please another’s ears. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Accept both compliments and criticism. It takes both sun and rain for a flower to grow.
When Someone Compliments You Quotes
When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are. — Frederick Lenz
I like to have my hand on every single plate that goes out. It's really a good feeling when someone compliments your meal, and you had everything to do with making it. It's very rewarding. — Bill Dickey
I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't take common sense for an answer. — Richard Dawkins
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Someone asked me the other day, 'Do you get upset when people say you are the young Frank Sinatra?' It doesn't upset me. It is a huge compliment, but it is false. — Michael Buble
A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment. — Ken Blanchard
When I ask to photograph someone, it is because I love the way they look and I think I make that clear. I'm paying them a tremendous compliment. What I'm saying is, I want to take you home with me and look at you for the rest of my life. — Amy Arbus
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment. — Stana Katic
When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else. — John Henry Newman
How To Compliment Quotes
The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello." — Ice T
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment. — William Feather
Accepting what others see as your strengths is crucial to your continued growth. Compliments are a gift. They are an opportunity for you and another person to connect in a powerful, positive way. How did you handle the last compliment directed at you? Did you accept it? — Rhonda Britten
Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive.
"Dark Fantasy" was my long, backhanded apology. You know how people give a backhanded compliment? It was a backhanded apology. It was like, all these raps, all these sonic acrobatics. I was like: "Let me show you guys what I can do, and please accept me back. You want to have me on your shelves." — Kanye West
It's nice that people want to compliment you in some superficial way, but I've never considered that that's how I might be categorized. I guess it's better than being called ugly. — Ryan Phillippe
[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose. — Larry Hurtado
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed. — C. S. Lewis
I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song. — Deborah Cox
I've always tried to keep reinventing myself and to keep appealing to young people and when I go to colleges now and do my spoken-word show it's astounding to me how I get older and the audience gets younger. To me, that's the best compliment. That's better than money, that's better than anything. — John Waters
The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself. I'm sure glad you did.' You hope along the way that maybe, once in a while, you do that for someone else. — John Sexton
Give Compliments Quotes
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. — Alistair Cooke
You are my superstar. I'm your number one fan, give me your autograph, sign it right here on my heart. Girl, I'll be your groupie, baby. — Usher
The highest compliment we can give to God, our Creator, is to thoroughly enjoy the gift of life. One should never look a gift universe in the mouth! The best way to pay for a beautiful moment is to enjoy it. — Ronald Rolheiser
These are things I love, things I've worn. I get more compliments on accessories than anything else. I think they're kind of like herbs and spices. They give zest and zing to an outfit. — Iris Apfel
When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.' — Corrie Ten Boom
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart. — Helen Rowland
To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being. — William E. Gladstone
It's very inexpensive to give a compliment. — Joyce Meyer
Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off. — Val Kilmer
It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment. — Carroll O'Connor
Compliment Quotes
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. — Leo Buscaglia
If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me. — John Bunyan
Fight less, cuddle more. Demand less, serve more. Text less, talk more. Criticize less, compliment more. Stress less, laugh more. worry less, pray more. With each new day, find new ways to love each other even more. — Dave Willis
I'm not cocky, I'm confident. So when you tell me I'm the best it's a compliment — Jadakiss
When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside. — Joel Osteen
The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it. — Wayne Gretzky
There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments. — Chris Rock
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it. — Mitch Hedberg
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. — Jackson Pollock
You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. — Thomas Wolfe
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch. — Leo Buscaglia
The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment. — Michio Kaku
The general idea is that we must weigh our freedom of speech against the right of others to not be offended. No! Freedom of speech is precisely meant to protect the most obnoxious, offensive, and disgusting speech. It does not exist to ensure that you only levy beautiful compliments at me. Occasionally being offended is the price that one pays for living in a truly free society. — Gad Saad
Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. — Jackson Pollock
Elon Musk told me that he values criticism over compliments. Because only one helps you improve. — Peter Diamandis
You fog the mind, you stir the soul. — Robbie Robertson
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. — Joyce Brothers
You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' — Tommy Cooper
I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know? — Jill Scott
Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4. — Stevie Wonder
When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged, it’s up to you. — Jay Shetty
I feel it is a tremendous compliment to a natural competitor to hear "I just don't believe you're natural," because it means you just look that good. — Kai Greene
Someone from Manolo Blahnik went into my shop and said: 'These shoes are not vegetarian.' That's the highest compliment, because you just can't tell that they are, and they are. My mum taught me to have a soul. — Stella McCartney
As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.' — Clarence Clemons
She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy. — P. C. Cast
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance. — Dale Carnegie
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character. — Matt LeBlanc
My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance. — Rod Stewart
It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down. — Drake
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him. — Teresa of Avila
When people say (nice) things you take them as compliments and it's nice, but it won't help you win your next game. The thing I am trying to keep in mind is that relying on my past performance will not make me win my next game, it'll only get in my way. — Greg Maddux
I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment. — Josh Brolin
And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment. — Jason Statham
If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one. — Mark Twain
In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. — David Amram
Light gesture and color of the key compliments of any photograph. Light and color are obvious, but it is just her that is the most important. There is gesture in everything. It's up to you to find a gesture that is most telling. — Jay Maisel
You're better off owning 30 percent and having two amazing partners who compliment you and are equally as driven as you are than having 100 percent and only having one aspect of it, unless you're a super genius who is creative and business-minded at the same time. — Rob Dyrdek
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