Quotes About Recognition

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

Men are not given awards and promotions for bravery in intimacy.

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

In sports and journeys men are knowne. [In sports and journeys men are known.]

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.

The few men who do a hand's turn around the house expect gratitude and recognition, so sure are they that, though it is their dirt, it is not their job.

Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.

When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.