Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient. - Cicero
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or is discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. - Dale Carnegie
A heart given freely is the most vulnerable and selfless thing one can offer another human being. It can be as fragile and needy as a newly born infant, or as solid and self-supporting as a granite pillar, yet it is the hands of the recipient that determines its ultimate fate. - Mark W. Boyer
The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise. - Barbara W. Tuchman