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The highest compliments leaders can receive are those that are given by the people who work for them. — James L. Barksdale

Listening is as important as talking. If you're a good listener, people often compliment you for being a good conversationalist ... — Jesse Ventura

To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club. — Zig Ziglar

I don't give out compliments easily. — Pat Summitt

Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth. — Chapman Cohen

Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life. — Lada Ray

I dont like compliments. I prefer criticism..then I can prove those people wrong. — Paul Scholes

People don't usually compliment your character. — Taylor Swift

My grandfather criticized me thousands of times, and he gave me a compliment once. — Louis Garrel

It was a form of compliment, she felt, since it made her the focus of his attention. — Margaret Atwood

You find a lot of ideas from my shows in adverts now. I find it a compliment. — Alexander McQueen

My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Gratitude is more of a compliment to yourself than someone else. — Raheel Farooq

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else. — John Henry Newman

Geek? Sure, call me that. I take that as a compliment. — Brian Krzanich

I see something in her eyes, sends me to a better place. — Joe Satriani

The greatest compliment I can pay Paul Scholes is that he reminds me of Bryan Robson, the way he bombs into the box. — Ray Wilkins

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do. — Samuel Richardson

He had the singular ability to knock down her carefully bricked defenses, which was a compliment to them both and the secret to their love. — Eleanor Brown

The finest compliment that can be paid to a woman of sense is to address her as such. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I smile every time I hear that I'm a fan favorite or a teenage hottie. It is a nice compliment, and the remarks from the fans are great. — Sean Berdy

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors. — Walter Jon Williams

The best compliment I've gotten was being compared to Randy Johnson. We're both hard-throwing. — Jennie Finch

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book. — J.K. Rowling

To call a man a characteristically Oxford man is, in my opinion, to give him the highest compliment that could be paid to any human being. — William E. Gladstone

Compliment inflates.
Blame deflates.
Truth understates. — Brian Taylor

It's very inexpensive to give a compliment. — Joyce Meyer

Did you call me an assjacket again? I gotta say, it sounds like a compliment coming from you. — Ophelia London

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around. — Calista Flockhart

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average. — W. Somerset Maugham

A girl's got to do what she's got to do to make somebody pay her a compliment. If that means moaning 'til the cows come home, then so be it. — Cat Deeley

It's good netiquette to look for every opportunity to compliment others online. — David Chiles

If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague. — Susan Andersen

She pulls the eyes out with a face like a magnet. — Elvis Costello

I certainly would never want to be normal. When people say, "You're weird," I usually take it as a compliment. — Erin Davie

Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. — Brent Weeks

It's a compliment to me to hear you screaming. — Alice Cooper

Be careful who you call crazy. Some of us think it's a compliment. — Marilynn Dawson

Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy. — Michael Dolan

The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.". — Aaron Stanford

You know you're young when someone asks you for money and you take it as a compliment. — David Sedaris

It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment. — Carroll O'Connor

When people say to me, 'You're like the Anna Kournikova who wins,' I definitely take it as a compliment, because she's quite gorgeous. — Amanda Beard

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. — Joyce Brothers

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jaxon gave me a compliment. I was sure there'd be winged pigs up there somewhere. — Chris Cannon

Oh, he was perfect. An orgasm - just for her - and a compliment. She would bottle him and sell him and make her fortune. — Ruthie Knox

Barbie is my fashion icon. People think I'm Paris Barbie - and it's a compliment. — Paris Hilton

Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment. — Shonda Rhimes

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. — George Eliot

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role. — Carrie Preston

We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here's my mother, figuring "alert" ought to suffice as a compliment. — Randy Pausch

Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

When people give me a compliment, I just look back and smile, as I am just a glimpse of both my father's. Both earthly and heavenly. — Silas Packianathan

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business. — Roger Rosenblatt

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment. — Vesta Williams

[I]f I suffered only one fool gladly, I assure you it would be you. — Iain M. Banks

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. — Sidney Poitier

When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment. — Stana Katic

A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment. — Mark Twain

Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments. Especially impertinent compliments. — Elizabeth Peters

You're like Lady Macbeth without the murder." "Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me. — John Corey Whaley

To be a great success detect the problem, find the solutions, never complain, but never forget to compliment someone. — Debasish Mridha

One of the things I'd learned ... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make. — Neil Strauss

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved. — George MacDonald

Guard against that vanity which courts a compliment, or is fed by it. — Thomas Chalmers

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It hasn't escaped my notice that you only compliment me when you're intoxicated. — Jeaniene Frost

stress the word "genuine," because most of the time people can see through a non-genuine compliment based on tone of voice and facial expression. — Matt Morris

I felt like everyones second choice, which is why a compliment could catch me off guard. Page 106 — Sonia Sotomayor

Having one of your like dumb sort of stream of consciousness tweets used against you on a right wing website is the ultimate compliment. — Julie Klausner

I'm trying to compliment you," Barclay say. "Can't you just say thanks? — Elizabeth Norris

Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment. — Kristan Higgins

When someone criticizes you, give them two gifts- your smile and a compliment. — Debasish Mridha

If you're facing what looks like a large problem, receive it as a compliment from the Universe. What a great soul you must be! — Mary Morrissey

For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core. — H. Rider Haggard

I haven't had sex with many people in my life, and everyone just assumes that I'm good in bed!! I guess that's a compliment. — Brandon Boyd

And he raised his glass to her. It could have been a compliment. Or the most sarcastic gesture anyone had ever made to her. — Lisa Kleypas

Don't thank the lord, I gave you that compliment ... Thank me. — Hannibal Buress

A smile is the best compliment of love for a friend and for a stranger. — Debasish Mridha

Always take a compliment, even if it's not yours — Benny Bellamacina

To earn the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses. — Mark Twain

Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. — David Duchovny

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism. — Plautus

Oh, and you accuse me of flattery! Here I waddle about like a fat old duck and you try to tell me I'm lovely. — Robin Hobb

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The biggest compliment I get is that I don't sound like anybody else. I think I value that as the highest compliment. — Burton Cummings

Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment. — Bill Walsh

I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.' — Jo Koy

I think being called a she-devil by a trial lawyer is meant as a compliment. — Ann Coulter

I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment. — Ransom Riggs

How did men manage to offer a compliment that transitioned from sweet to utterly salacious in the span of a few words? — Chloe Neill

Fat Kid Proverb #52: Never miss an opportunity to dissect a compliment. — K.L. Going

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment. — Lord Chesterfield

If you want to feel good for a moment, appreciate yourself. If you want to feel good for more than a moment, appreciate others. — Sarvesh Jain

You're the prettiest thing I've seen fall from the sky today. — Shaun Hick

Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong — Paul Scholes