Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
I don't know that praise is always a good thing.
When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
I've always thrived on the encouragement of others.
I thought acknowledging praise meant you were arrogant, but I've learned that knowing your strengths enables you to make use of them.
Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.