Quotes About Recognition

Reputations are easily obtained.

Reputations are often undeserved,' said Moncharmin. 'I have the reputation of knowing all about music, but I don't the difference between the treble clef and the bass clef.' 'Don't worry, you've never had that reputation,' Richard assured him.

All I wanted was to be loved for myself

Nature is heartless, people can be cruel, and death and suffering are inevitable and arbitrary. We learn to tame our terror by laughing at the absurdity of it all. By laughing at that recognition, you are rising above it and blunting its power to disturb.

You have understood me better than I wanted, as the man said when he looked in the mirror.

But the Lorns stood in the worst possible relationship: they were known by name only. They were reputed to be "nice.

You give names to your houses." "To cats and dogs also. If you call a dog, it will come to you sometimes. Cats will not come. So our houses are cats.

Wake up to the riot of life around you every second. The singer Pearl Bailey said, "People see God every day; they just don't recognize Him.

Milena's eyes seemed to go hot and heavy. Praise made her heartsick; she was so unused to it, and needed it so badly.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Self-consciousness exists in itself and for itself, in that and by the fact that it exists for another self-consciousness; that is to say, it is only by being acknowledged or recognized.

What is familiar and well known as such is not really known for the very reason that it is familiar and well known.

If you can't appreciate what you've got, you'd better get what you can appreciate.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. The Devil's Disciple, Act II

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it.

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see: "We are the proud parents of a child who's self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn't need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

If a princess in the days of enchantment had seen a four-footed creature from among those which live in herds come to her once and again with a human gaze which rested upon her with choice and beseeching, what would she think of in her journeying, what would she look for when the herds passed her? Surely for the gaze which had found her, and which she would know again.

By a peculiar thermometric adjustment, when a woman's talent is at zero, journalistic approbation is at the boiling pitch; when she attains mediocrity, it is already at no more than summer heat; and if ever she reaches excellence, critical enthusiasm drops to the freezing point.

What is the use of being exquisite if you are not seen by the best judges?

am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me.