Quotes About Recognition

Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck, that of the people.

Usually when an athlete gets a reputation it sticks with him, even when he's an old man.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

The uncouth hordes of common men are not fit to recognize duly the merits of those who eclipse their own wretchedness.

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

To please great men is not the last degree of praise.

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men.

It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man." [Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.

It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are.

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .

It's a rare man who is taken for what he truly is.

A passport picture is a photo of a man that he can laugh at without realizing that it looks exactly the way his friends see him.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.