Quotes About Recognition

If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.

My characters are much more famous than I am, so I don't crave attention; I just crave working and doing good work. Having a feeling of self-worth.

The road to Emmaus is this world.

In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize him or not to recognize him, but all the more fascinatingly because of that, all the more compellingly and hauntingly.

Mr. Johnson had just been reading the Lady of the Lake, and at once suggested that my name be Douglass. From that time until now I have been called Frederick Douglass;

Leaving the Great House, my presence became known to the colored people, some of whom were children of those I had known when a boy. They all seemed delighted to see me, and were pleased when I called over the names of many of the old servants

Nihilism, then, is the recognition of the long waste of strength, the agony of the in vain, insecurity, the lack of any opportunity to recover and to regain composure-—being ashamed in front of oneself, as if one had deceived oneself all too long.—

Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.

You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.

When brother fled from brother, when lovers passed Each other by in ignorance, when fathers failed To recognize their sons, when human words no more Were understood, nor human laws, that was when The meaning of it all assailed me and I trembled: It was my nation's parting god!

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one, he is unjust to what is behind him, and only recognizes one law - the law of that which is to be.

TO RECOGNISE UNTRUTH AS A CONDITION OF LIFE; that is certainly to impugn the traditional ideas of value in a dangerous manner, and a philosophy which ventures to do so, has thereby alone placed itself beyond good and evil.

I myself, to be sure - I have as yet seen no great man. That which is great, the acutest eye is at present insensible to it. It is the kingdom of the populace.

Many honours I want not, nor great treasures: they excite the spleen. But it is bad sleeping without a good name and a little treasure.

Yes, I recognize Zarathustra. His eyes are clear now, no longer does he sneer with loathing. Just see how he dances along!

Actors make great sacrifices, which the yokels and even their co-mates rarely appreciate.

Even at that, I don't suppose I should have been surprised. We all see things now and then.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

It is only when we recognize our inferiority that we become superior to others.

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.

and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.