Quotes for the Journey: Compliments Those who fish for compliments can expect to be handed a line. Ivern Ball

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     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     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     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      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

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 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

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

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

A compliment is verbal sunshine.       -Robert Orben

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

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.       -Victor Hugo

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

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.       -Marquis De Vauvenargues

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