Quotes About Recognition

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.

The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.

I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?

Let a man (as most men do) rate themselves as the highest Value they can; yet their true Value is no more than it is esteemed by others.