Quotes About Recognition

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

Some day they will know what I mean.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.

The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . .

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

Commendation, n: the tribute that we pay to achievements that resemble, but do not equal, our own.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattery.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

I would have praised you more had you praised me less.

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.

God receives little thanks, even for his greatest gifts.

The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

Epitaph to a waiter: By and by God caught his eye.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.