Quotes About Recognition

His name is Human,' said the Speaker. 'And so is yours,' said the Bishop softly.

Nobody would notice you, except to feel sorry for the little kid. But I made sure they all noticed you today. They'll be watching every move you make. All you have to do to earn their respect now is be perfect.

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

I am not concerned that I am not known; I seek to be worthy to be known.

To study and constantly, is this not a pleasure? To have friends come from far away places, is this not a joy? If people do not recognize your worth, but this does not worry you, are you not a true gentleman?

The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned—is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar—is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment—is this not the mark of the gentleman?" (Analects 1.1)

Don't grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

The noble-minded worry about their lack of ability, not about people's failure to recognize their ability.

Don't worry if you have no position: worry about making yourself worthy of one. Don't worry if you aren't known and admired: devote yourself to a life that deserves admiration.

I am not worried that nobody knows me. I seek to become fit to be known

A man should say, I am not concerned that I have no place, I am concerned how I may fit myself for one. I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Do not worry people not knowing you but strive so that you may worth knowing

She was afraid she'd have no hope at all of recognizing the drop without the wagon and boxes there. She would have to get Gawyn to show it to her

six emotions make up the first group: love, desire and joy in response to whatever my senses recognize

At sixteen Helen was already famous, and at seventeen already forgotten, and very much alone.

In any generation, even the most revolutionary, the arrangements which are enjoyed always far exceed those which are recognized to stand in need of attention, and those which are being prepared for enjoyment are few in comparison with those which receive amendment: the new is an insignificant proportion of the whole.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.