Quotes About Recognition

Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

Michael Steele! You be da man! You be da man!

The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that ... I was worthy of being number one to a man.

Don't ever squeeze a fighter's hand, man. You're doing good just to lay your eyes on me

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

I'm too ambitious to give another man credit, even if that other man is only myself in disguise.

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.

I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize].

Usually as humans and especially as a man, we look at things in context. It's like, oh, I know what that is, that's this, or this, there's that.

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off.

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

The most important thing is just to be recognised as a legend, like the people call me. To have that title attached to your name, you've got to be a bad man. It's an honour to have that role.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.

Wait a minute man, who do you think I am? He answered, Mr. Springsteen.

Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you; let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.