Quotes About Recognition

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.

The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

Ingratitude to man is ingratitude to God.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

Offices are not powerful because they exist; men make them so. Rights are not honored because they exist; men compel their recognition.

Everyone is a self-made man. Only the successful admit it.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool. [Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

God, it's nice to be treated like a man.

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

I started photographing men in 1964. Fourteen years later I got a Guggenheim, even so no one would publish the male nudes.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.