Quotes About Recognition

Rock stars get room keys, I get business cards.

Fame sometimes hath created something of nothing.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Do as most do, and men will speak well of you.

Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked.

I am not impressed with what people own. But I'm impressed with what they achieve. I'm proud to be a physician. Always strive to be the best in your field…. Don't chase money. If you are the best in your field, money will find you.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.

Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them." ~ Thomas Kinkade

I have only recorded what everyone is saying (though they may not know they are saying it), and sometimes what they have seen (though they may not know they have seen it).

No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Go where glory waits thee!But while fame elates thee,Oh, still remember me!

One may dream the same dream at intervals for years, and in each case it is an unconscious action, but if in his dream he recalls that he has had this dream before, and recognizes what is coming next, or remembers that it is different from what it was before, there has entered into his dream a factor of conscious thinking.

The winner of the game is the one with all the names.

Why don't you have a right to say you are Jesus? And why isn't the proper response to that "congratulations"?

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

This is what spiritual development means—the recognition, realization, and manifestation of the Spirit within us.

bodies, we have never met face-to-face with our kidneys, how we wouldn't recognize our own liver in a row of livers, how we have never seen our own heart or brain.

Westerners may wonder, "Who are these gods?" If we were to adapt this to our cultural context, the verse might be, "Homage to you adored by Jesus, Mary, Moses, Abraham, Mohammed, Zeus, Socrates, Plato, Rambo, Madonna, Freud, Dr. Laura, Clinton, Bush, and everyone in Star Wars.

The root of our problems is within our mind. It is our unskillful ways of thinking. We have to recognize the right ways of thinking, which bring happiness, and the wrong ways of thinking, which bring suffering. With one way of thinking, we have problems in our life; with another way of thinking, we don't. In other words, happiness and suffering come from our own mind. Our mind creates our life.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. —WILLIAM JAMES (1842–1910)

This time it is different. Today I have sought a spiritual teacher, I have read the sutras, and as a result I have now recognized the enemy!" It has been stated: The old days when you could Ruin me at will are now gone; I can see you now, so where are you off to? I shall tear down your arrogance.197

Instead you recognize all such tasks as obligations, so boastfulness toward others simply does not occur.