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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.

I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.