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Quotes About Recognition

She who desires to see, desires also to be seen.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
~ Norm MacDonald
I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
~ Sheryl Crow
You are someone; that's enough. Everybody's feelings are ultimately the same. The desire to be special, to be wanted, to be seen. That's the same, too.
~ Eli Russell Linnetz
[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.
~ George Orwell
All people have the common desire to be elevated in honour, but all people have something still more elevated in themselves without knowing it.
~ Mencius
Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.
~ John Shelby Spong
Death in anonymity is the ultimate insult to human dignity.
~ Kathy Reichs
Nothing adds such dignity to character as the recognition of one's self- sovereignty.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
~ Orhan Pamuk
I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
~ Ahmet Ertegun
Why, this hath not a finger's dignity.
~ William Shakespeare
Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth.
~ Chip Espinoza
I believe there can be dignity in the acting profession. And I think there ought to be more dignity in the publicity an actor gets.
~ Paul Newman
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
~ Aristotle
Don't a man has serf esteem, it's only woman who is sign of dignity, don't man have their own?
~ Junaid Raza
When you're being told that you're good at something, you start to believe them and then you forget about your hopes and dreams.
~ Ken Spillman
It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.
~ Kevin Smith
What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.
~ Unknown
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.
~ M. C. Escher
I recognize the lion by his paw.
~ Unknown
Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.
~ Willie McCovey
I know how hard I hit, and so do my fans, and so do everyone else in the UFC.
~ Johny Hendricks