Recognition Quotes

True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess.

Ogwo David Emenike

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Ronald Reagan

A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.

Gerald Early

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Immanuel Kant

Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.

Wilson Mizner

I'm shopping around for something to do that no one will like.

Jerry Garcia

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

Bette Midler

I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10, 000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.

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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.

Fournier

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

David Mamet

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

Peter Ustinov

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

Yogi Berra

He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, for he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.

Oliver Goldsmith

True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.

Lord Mansfield

I would jump down Etna for any public good -- but I hate a mawkish popularity.

John Keats

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Oscar Wilde

Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.

Oscar Wilde

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

Marlene Dietrich

The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.

Proverb