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Quotes About Recognition

Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen. (Daenerys)
~ George R. R. Martin
I love in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are. My mother has trouble remembering my name.
~ Hugh Grant
So you're mother? Nice to put a name to a face.
~ Michael McIntyre
People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.
~ Zach Braff
I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.
~ Norah Jones
The way you would know if someone is famous in the art world is that you would ask your mother. My mother knows who Picasso was. She knows who Warhol was.
~ Richard Prince
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3, 000, 000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day
~ Sam Ewing
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.
~ Frederick Herzberg
It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
~ John Wooden
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
~ Damon Hill
In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
~ Will Smith
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
~ Casey Stengel
The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none.
~ Philip Caldwell
I don't understand these national awards, because half of those who sit in judgement over Indian films do not... possess the competence to evaluate a film correctly.
~ Satyajit Ray
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
~ Jesse Owens
My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.
~ John Hope Franklin
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
~ Will Rogers
The quick lesson that I learned is that none of the fame part is really real.
~ Carly Rae Jepsen
I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
~ Kate Reardon
It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.
~ Albert Brooks
Leadership is the ability to recognize the special abilities and limitations of others, combined with the capacity to fit each one into the job where he will do his best.
~ J. Oswald Sanders
An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed.
~ Clint Eastwood
The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.
~ W. C. Fields