Quotes About Recognition

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

Men only know if you tell them. Even though you probably want them to just know, they won't.

No matter how great a man is, the size of his funeral usually depends on the weather.

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

Some people can get away with being very sexy to men and not looking like a complete cow, but I didn't think I was in a position where people knew me well enough

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

We ask to be recognized as men.

No man is a hero to his valet de chamber

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.