Quotes About Recognition

I have yet to meet a man who has seen my true stars.

We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

Old men need applause too.

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes.

When a man is right he wants to get all that is coming to him for being right.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

All men are Jews, though few men know it.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

I will praise any man that will praise me.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me because I did things other men were afraid to do. That's why my fans identified with me.

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.