Quotes About Acknowledgment

It is so easy to thank people, said Mma Ramotswe, passing the letter over to Mma Makutsi, and most people don't bother to do it. They don't thank the person who does something for them. They just take it for granted.

Gratitude was a lost art, she felt. People accepted things, took them as their right, and had forgotten how to give proper thanks.

Mma Ramotswe stepped forward and put an arm around Patience's shoulder. "Mma, " she said, "I see you." It was the oldest and simplest of African greetings: I see you. It implied so much more than it said, though, because it meant that Mma Ramotswe saw not only the person standing before her, but all that lay behind her – who she was, where she came from, how she felt.

Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni nodded his head.

Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

If you get noticed by a "tastemaker" (an important blogger, journalist, radio station, etc.), be sure to say thanks. You can do it on social media, but try something else to make your "thanks" unique.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition," he wrote. "I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Yeah, I know." The poor girl. I felt very bad

Only when Brub had acknowledged the introduction and turned to his wife did the waver of fear come to her.

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Just because we're friends, doesn't mean I shouldn't have to say sorry. You deserve that respect.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

Figuring out Lorne consequently became something of an obsession for many on the show. They talked about him for hours, sometimes catching themselves using Lorne's favorite words or phrases, and an acknowledgment from him was enough to keep them motivated for weeks.

Not the least of them is that while the West is assaulted for everything it has done wrong, it now gets no credit for having got anything right.

There is no such thing as 'invisible' honor or respect.

I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.

Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

I am grateful to life. And also to the people who have brought me here. Without them, I could not be where I am now.

If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.

At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.