Quotes About Recognition

Sydney-based software firm Atlassian sends each new employee, whatever his or her position, to a resort spa the weekend before the start date as a way to celebrate the new job.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Where women are honored, the divinities are pleased. Where they are despised, it is useless to pray to God.

That's nice! You have called me Eponine!

Ignominy thirsts for respect.

Ignominy thirsts for consideration.

you are looking at a plain man and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

Soit dit en passant, c'est une chose assez hideuse que le succès. Sa fausse ressemblance avec le mérite trompe les hommes.

Those who do deeds sovereignly great are always sure of being served by somebody in the multitude.

The reader has, no doubt, already divined that M. Madeleine is no other than Jean Valjean.

El éxito es algo bastante repulsivo. El falso parecido que tiene con el mérito engaña a los hombres.

Sia detto alla sfuggita, il successo è una cosa piuttosto lurida; la sua falsa somiglianza col merito inganna gli uomini. Per la folla, la riuscita ha quasi lo stesso profilo della supremazia. Il successo, sosia della capacità, sa ingannare per bene la storia.

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

She ought to have recognized love's scarcity early on. If success were gold, lying in rivers, love was a diamond, buried hundreds of feet beneath the surface of the earth and unrecognizable in its natural form.

Women wrote their names on scraps of paper or cloth and shoved them through cracks in the carriage walls, hoping against hope to be remembered.

Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think I'd like to be known.

always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.

She heard the name. At first it meant nothing to her, just another sound. Then she remembered. She'd been Juliette. And Isabelle before that. And the Nightingale. Not just F-5491.

They were almost the exact same words he'd written to her all those years ago. She hadn't recognized the sad desperation in them when they were letters on a piece of paper. Now she saw the truth: they were both an encouragement and an indictment. What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?

Her age made her particularly invisible to those who cared most about appearance and power;

Yona shook her head. "He sees me as more than I am, I think." "No. He sees you for exactly who you are. And that is very difficult for him.