Compliments Quotes

Compliments Quote of the day

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.

Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.

Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.

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.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Always take a compliment, Caroline. Always take it for the way it was intended. You girls are always so quick to twist what others say. Simply say thank you and move on.

I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist.

You're not going to be great at everything. Surround yourself with people that can compliment you so you can work together and then everybody can be successful.

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

This gentleman here, Michael Hussey, is just an absolute freak.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

See, when you mess something up, you learn for the next time. It's when people compliment you that you're in trouble. That means they expect you to keep it up.

I find it to be the ultimate backhanded compliment when you are compared against yourself.

Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.

Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn’t think less of you.

I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

It's great when talented people in the world, in the same business, can see your work and compliment you on what you're doing and take a strong interest in your movements in your career.

Having people be impressed with a house is not a compliment. You don't want them to say, 'What a place!' You want them to sit down and enjoy it.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel.

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.

If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not

Wow, that is so deep.'He meant it, of course.'You're really real, ' he added breathily. 'Say something else.'I decided he wasn't worth punching, and walked away.

...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly...

People who praise a leader even when he is doing the wrong things are the main reasons why his fall is near.

You are prettier than you can imagine.

When you told me, “You are my star, ” my heart danced with joy because that was the best sentence that I have ever heard.

Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.

Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else.

Once you tell a man he's pretty, there's no taking it back. They think they're pretty all the time, and I suppose, in a way, they are. It's got to do with believing it.

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.

Stop teasing you two, ” Suzy jumped in, “not all of Kathy’s ideas are wacky.”“Gee thanks. Was that supposed to be a compliment?

Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.

True humility is being able to accept criticisms as graciously as we accept compliments.

Compliments land assoft and gentle on my earsas a butterfly.

​You can always tell when someone deserves the praise and recognition they receive, because it humbles them rather than inflating their ego.

I was as terrible at giving compliments as I was at receiving them.

I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime

People who get offended by your not saying 'Thank you!' … after they’ve paid you a compliment were merely desperate to be thanked.

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