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Quotes About Applause

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.
~ Robert Montgomery
I still think most of my success came from the audience's reaction to me. It's weird when that happens but a lot of it came from what I did inside the ring.
~ Daniel Bryan
I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
~ Van Cliburn
Success causes us to be more praised than known.
~ Joseph Roux
The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.
~ Robert Rodriguez
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
~ Homer
However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.
~ Alexandre Dumas
impossible. Teleportation is a Tigroid Function. (Applause) Any man was capable of jaunting provided
~ Alfred Bester
And who would have dared refuse him? Whoever she was, Anne silently applauded her.
~ Alison Weir
Crowds rarely cheer too loudly for the defeated, no matter how hard they fought, how great their sacrifices, how long the odds. Maidens might wet themselves over cheap and worthless victories, but they don't so much as blush for 'I did my best
~ Joe Abercrombie
"A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others"
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers
~ Andre Agassi
Applause, applause, life is our cause.
~ Joni Mitchell
It means, your worships' excellencies, that - you - can't come to it! This chicken won't fight. It means that the fat's in the fire, and the cat's out of the bag! It means confusion! Distraction! Perdition! And a tearing off of our wigs! It means the game's up, the play's over, villainy is about to be hanged and virtue about to be married, and the curtain is going to drop and the principal performer - that's I - is going to be called out amid the applause of the audience!
~ E.D.E.N. Southworth
"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."
~ Edmund Burke
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
~ Edmund Burke
Molto brillante! Consideratevi applaudito.
~ Edmund Cooper
everyone clapped, in metronomic spasms.
~ Edmund Crispin
But what you're really telling me is that you want to be desired. You want to be applauded, to be attractive, to have all the little monkeys running after you. You're wasting your life. Wake up! You don't need this. You can be blissfully happy without it. Your society is not going
~ Anthony de Mello
He addressed a large crowd and was warmly applauded.
~ Anthony Everitt
In China, they treated me really well, they like me a lot. The first few times they laughed when I took my shirt off, but when they saw me throw my punches and saw my opponent on the floor, they came over to my side and clapped.
~ Andy Ruiz Jr.
Once I began doing stand-up, I didn't get a kick out of the applause or being the centre of attention - but I did get a kick out of the jigsaw puzzle aspect of it, searching for the right bit, adding another few pieces each night until the bigger picture appears. That's the appeal: the challenge of it.
~ Stephen Merchant
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
~ Warren Cuccurullo