#Recognition Quotes

“The house praises the carpenter.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”

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

“One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.”

“Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.”

“A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.”

“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.”

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

“Your praises will become your wages.”

“What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!”

“When people come up to me and say, "I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto," or, "I saw your first goal in the NHL," that triggers memories. But I don't sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, "You know, one year I got 92 goals."”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“Genius always finds itself a century too early.”

“"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."”

“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.”

“I've always just wished that maybe someday people would care about the words that I wrote.”

“I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.”

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

“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.”

“It's interesting to all of a sudden be considered valuable.”

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

“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.”

“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 silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.”

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

“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.”

“The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.”

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

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

“Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.”

“When you do your best, people notice.”

“I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot.”

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

“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.”

“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!'.”

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

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

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”

“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.”

“Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them.”

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

“Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet.”