Flattery vs Appreciation

07/07/2014

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person…Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.
Eleanor Roosevelt

"The difference between appreciation and flattery?" asks Dale Carnegie in his classic, How to Win Friends and Influence People. "One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned."

"...Try leaving a friendly trail of little sparks of gratitude on your daily trips. You will be surprised how they will set small flames of friendship that will be rose beacons on your next visit."

"...Let's cease thinking of our accomplishments, our wants. Let's try to figure out the other person's good points. Then forget flattery. Give honest, sincere appreciation. Be 'hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise,' and people will cherish your words and treasure them and repeat them over a lifetime - repeat them years after you have forgotten them."

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