Quotes About Recognition

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to dispense them from admiration, a vulgar emotion.

When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men, who praise sincerely those things in us which are really commendable.

I guess men like me - somebody out there must think I'm hot.

If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

There are a lot of good looking men on this planet. It seems like once a week someone will tell me, "I know someone who looks like you" and I don't know what say to them except, "Tell them hi."

I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'

I was voted the most beautiful girl in the world in 1958, and courted by every young, available man in Los Angeles, most of whom I didn't go out with, by the way.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.

Who wants to shake the hand of the first man to put it to America's sweetheart.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?

And not a girl goes walking Along the Cotswold lanes But knows men's eyes in April Are quicker than their brains.

The sooner we recognize the fact that the mercy of the Almighty extends to every creature endowed with life, the better it will be for us as men and Christians.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name.