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Quotes About Recognition

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
~ William Westmoreland
Men only act in a state of necessity and usually only recognise necessity in a situation of crisis.
~ Jean Monnet
I had intended to have gone into Africa incognito. But the fact that a white man, even an American, was about to enter Africa was soon known all over Zanzibar.
~ Henry Morton Stanley
Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.
~ Hafez
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
~ W. S. Gilbert
I am not an animal! I am a human being! I…am…a man!
~ Joseph Merrick
Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.
~ Louis Sullivan
Anybody can be nobody; but it takes a man to be somebody.
~ Eugene V. Debs
A man must commit a crime at least once in his life-time. Only then will his virtue be recognized
~ Girish Karnad
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
~ George Bernard Shaw
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'
~ Ted Williams
You're not a man until your father says you're a man.
~ Burt Reynolds
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
~ Aristotle
A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost.
~ George S. Patton
Little things are great to little men.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.
~ Agnes Repplier
This was the purpose of the whole creation, that man should recognize and know Him and give praise to His Name.
~ Nahmanides
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
~ Aldous Huxley
Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
A quarrelsome man deserves no honors.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
~ Ralph Ellison
You can go to Japan, China, all the European, African, Arab, and South American countries, and man, they know me. I can't name a nation where they don't know me.
~ Muhammad Ali
How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
~ Malcolm X