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If
people did not compliment
one another there
would be little society.
Marquis
De Vauvenargues |
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Nothing
makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them.
One is more delightful for being told one is delightful --
just as
one is more angry for being told one is angry.
Katherine
F. Gerould
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The
greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when
one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Henry
David Thoreau |
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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 |
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The
happiness of life is
made up of minute fractions--
the
little,
soon-forgotten
charities of a kiss or smile,
a kind look,
a heart-felt
compliment, and the countless infinitesimals
of pleasurable
and genial feeling.
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge |
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folks pay a compliment like they expect a receipt
for it.
Kin Hubbard |
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A compliment is something like a kiss
through a veil.
Victor Hugo
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If you can't get a compliment any other
way,
pay yourself one.
Mark Twain |
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Robert Orben |
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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 |
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The other day I was in the grocery store and
witnessed an incredible
display of patience.
The checkout clerk had just been chewed out
by an
angry customer, clearly without good cause.
Rather than being
reactive, the clerk defused the
anger by remaining calm.
When it was
my turn to pay for my groceries I said to
her, “I’m so impressed at
the way you handled that
customer.” She
looked me right in the eye
and said, “Thank you, sir.
Do you know you are the first person ever
to give me
a compliment in this store?”
It took less than two seconds
to let her know, yet it
was a highlight of her day, and of mine.
Richard Carlson |
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Fish for no
compliments; they are generally caught in shallow water.
D. Smith |
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There
is a sad tendency in our world today
for persons to cut one another down. Did you
ever realize that it does not take very much
in the way of brainpower to make remarks that
may wound another? Try the opposite of that.
Try handing out compliments.
Gordon
B. Hinckley |
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| If compliments were food, I'd have starved to
death 28 years ago.
Erma Bombeck |
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Those
who fish for compliments can expect to be handed a line.
Ivern
Ball |
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Praise
is warming and desirable . . . what the human race lives on
like bread. But praise is an earned thing. It
has to be deserved
like an honorary degree or a hug from a child.
A compliment is manna, a free gift.
Phyllis
McGinley |
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