Quotes About Recognition

I've come to realize that worldly light brings more popularity in someone's life then spiritual light.

My quotes are being used in other authors creations. To be recognized while I'm alive has surpassed my expectations

The worst denial of all is being in denial that we're in denial in the first place. And I would wonder if that's not exactly where most of us live out most of our lives.

He wore his medals. He had a surprising number of them, the real kind, not the ones you got for turning up. Although turning up was no mean thing, some days.

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.

One of the best ways to influence people is to make those around you feel important.

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

Even now it comes as a shock if by chance I notice in the street a face resembling someone I know however slightly, and I am at once seized by a shivering violent enough to make me dizzy.

Honoring what you deserve is the beginning of living.

Your worth cannot be determined by the value others place on you it can only be determined by what you know to be true about yourself

Many people seek popularity and want everyone to know their name. It's not important for everyone to know your name, it's important that some of the people you know don't forget your name.

Regardless of who you are, the brain pays a great deal of attention to several questions: "Can I eat it? Will it eat me?" "Can I mate with it? Will it mate with me?" "Have I seen it before?

if you get a certain breed of dog or buy a certain model of car, you suddenly start noticing the same dog or car everywhere you go.

What you praise defines what your child perceives success to be.

must confess the sin of envy. I have secretly envied those who enjoyed a success greater than mine or received more recognition. I've thought to myself, and even to God, Why not me? Didn't I work as hard or have as much talent? and so on. I know that is petty, but it is part of my fallen condition.

Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouthed,And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds;On both his wings, one black, the other white,Bears greatest names in his wild airy flight.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.

It is not just our failures or limitations that hold us back, it is our failure to recognise them.

Don't get so far in front of the parade that no one knows you're in the parade.

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

Although at the age of twenty-eight I had become preposterously famous, I was still partially gagged by the indoctrination of aggrieved lower-middle-class humility. In my work I had not dissembled, I was sure of that, but the nagging inheritance of 'Who do you think you are?' is hard to drown out in the presence of those who seem to have an ironclad awareness of who they are.

What you love determines what you feel shame about. If you love for men to make much of you, you will feel shame when they don't. But if you love for men to make much of Christ, then you will feel shame if he is belittled on your account.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see." (Ayn Rand)