see also encouragement

If people did not compliment
one another there
would be little society.

Marquis De Vauvenargues
 
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
    

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when
one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Henry David Thoreau
    

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
  
  
Some folks pay a compliment like they expect a receipt for it.

Kin Hubbard

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Victor Hugo

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

Mark Twain
A compliment is verbal sunshine.

Robert Orben
  
   

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
   
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
   

Fish for no compliments; they are generally caught in shallow water.

D. Smith
   

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
   
If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

Erma Bombeck
  

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

Those who fish for compliments can expect to be handed a line.

Ivern Ball
  
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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