Joyce Meyer
Author, Speaker
"Compliment people. Magnify their strengths, not their weaknesses."
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Compliment
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Sinclair Lewis
Novelist
"There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live."
Drake
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down."
Joyce Meyer
Author, Speaker
"It's very inexpensive to give a compliment."
Samuel Johnson
Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
"Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted."
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"I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now."
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"I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough."
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"An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect."
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"We were told our campaign wasn't sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment."
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"Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable."
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"A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment."
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"You come into my dreams from a whisper to a scream."
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"I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more."
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"A Friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us."
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"When you touch me, good God."
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"I can take criticisms but not compliments."
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"If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable."
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"Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you."
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"God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense."
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"Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth."
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"Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment."
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"I've gotten so many compliments for having nice feet."
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"It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."
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"An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency."
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"The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another."
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