Recognition Quotes

The Sage expects no recognition for what he does; he achieves merit but does not take it to himself; he does not wish to display his worth.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

"[My Beautiful] Dark [Twisted] Fantasy" and "Watch the Throne": neither was nominated for Album of the Year, and I made both of those in one year. I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person. But the thing is, I don't care about the Grammys; I just would like for the statistics to be more accurate.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.

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

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

We are so presumptuous that we wish to be known to all the world, even to those who come after us; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six persons immediately around us is enough to amuse and satisfy us.

If you talking 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

It's special to have the Kop sing my name.

Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.

What forests of laurel we bring, and the tears of mankind, to those who stood firm against the opinion of their contemporaries!

Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized.

I've always enjoyed being in the background, sitting in a cafe, watching people. But now, when I sit in a cafe, sometimes people watch me. It's a challenge. But it's usually people who want to say 'your book transformed my life', or something... so then I'm joyful. One moment before, I didn't want them to recognise me, but when they do, I'm glad.

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs.

"Do not call yourself an "artist-photographer" and make "artist-painters" and "artist-sculptors" laugh; call yourself a photographer and wait for artists to call you brother."

Not praising the deserving prevents envy.

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Your praises will become your wages.

If I'm a star, then the people made me a star.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame.

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.'

The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.

I never get tired of signing autographs 'cause I used to do it so much in class dreaming about the day that it might mean something to somebody.

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.

I'm the most recognised and loved man that ever lived

The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.

It is not a case of our people...wanting either separation or integration. The use of these words actually clouds the real picture. The 22 million Afro-Americans don't seek either separation or integration. They seek recognition and respect as human beings.

The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?"

We all are imbued with the love of praise.

When you do your best, people notice.

I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

If you fail to honor your people, They will fail to honor you; It is said of a good leader that When the work is done, the aim fulfilled, The people will say, "We did this ourselves."

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.

Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing.