Recognition Quotes

The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.

It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all.

When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You’ve just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan says, it’s a pat on the back, so great you’ll take it and then move on.

It was my fans who made me a star.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. The sternest comment that can be made against employers as a class lies in the fact that men of Ability usually succeed in showing their worth in spite of their employer, and not with his assistance and encouragement.

People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Praise leads to weakness. Getting it causes fear, losing it causes fear.

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

Say, I was on The Craig Kilbourne Show and the next day I flew to Minneapolis. I was at the airport and a guy came up. He said, 'Dude, I saw you on TV last night.' But he did not say whether or not he thought I was good, he just confirmed that I was on television. So I turned my head away from him for about a minute, then I turned it back. I said, 'Dude, I saw you at the airport about a minute ago. And you were good.'

To love is to recognize yourself in another.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing.

As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you are going, you will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it's people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

When there's somebody there who is transparent enough so that the stillness comes through unhindered, there's a reciprocal movement in you because the presence of stillness suddenly recognizes itself.

Don't worry about being acknowledged by others; worry about failing to acknowledge them.

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

No one did what I did last season and for this, I deserve the Golden Boot and why not the best World Player award?

There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on his starry track, though the mob is incapable; but when that love which is all-suffering, all-abstaining, all-aspiring, which has vowed to itself, that it will be a wretch and also a fool in this world, sooner than soil its white hands by any compliances, comes into our streets and houses,--only the pure and aspiring can know its face, and the only compliment they can pay it, is to own it.

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful.

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

(While accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award) I've been thinking about why you have to get famous to get an award for helping other people...If your name is John Doe, and you work night and day doing things for your helpless neighbors, what you get for your effort is tired. So, Mr. and Mrs. Doe, and all of you who give of yourselves, to those who carry too big a burden to make it on their own, I want you to reach out and take your share of this...Because if I have earned it, so too have you.

The house praises the carpenter.

When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors.

As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

I don't think stand-up is being appreciated as much as it could be and I don't think it has for a long time. There's some great stand-up comics who come to a town and if they're not a name, they don't attract a crowd but in reality there are brilliant people out there.

The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

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.

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

Do something for yourself, and then you will be recognized by the entire world as a man who has done for himself what others have done for themselves.

I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.

Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.

Even if you flippin' fries at McDonald's, if you are excellent, everybody wants to be in your line.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.][Lat., Laetus sumLaudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

I feel close to Marvin Gaye, Vincent van Gogh, because nobody appreciated his work until he was dead. Now it's worth millions.