Quotes About Recognition

Congratulations! Today is your day!

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.

I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.

You can't take life for granted.

The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.

When people treat you like nothing, you begin to feel like nothing.

I like coming to the United States because the United States played an important role in my life.

I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

One man came up to me at a taco stand and said, "I have no idea who you are, but I can see everyone is staring at you, so you must be somebody. I just wanted to tell you that you are not that special. You're no more special than me." I looked at him with a mouth full of food and managed to say, "Thanks. I agree," and promptly asked the waitress for a to go box.

Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.

I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.

The emblems of status may shift, but human nature generally delights in being first.

While humility feels weak, the truth is that humility is a sign of great strength. Humility is about putting ego aside. The word humility comes from a Latin word humilitas, which means grounded or low. When we are "grounded", we aren't easily swayed. We stand firm in who we are, who we belong to, and who we are committed to be going forward. A grounded person isn't looking for recognition because she is at peace with her worth in God's eyes.

When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

For some unknown reason, success usually occurs in private, while failure occurs in full view.

The final conclusion I've made is that we, the people, must decide what comes next. The events of the past decade have brought to the public fore a fairly widespread recognition that certain speech is beyond the pale, but in nearly every instance I have seen, regulatory and legislative proposals to restrict such speech take the wrong aim, punishing companies (and their workers) for errors, or for not moving fast enough, while failing to do anything to address the problems at the root.

Sometimes we don't see what it is we don't want to see.