Quotes of Recognition - somelinesforyou

“ To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate. ”

- Michael Jordan

“ It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there. ”

- Mia Hamm

“ You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal. ”

- Mia Hamm

“ A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into. ”

- Ansel Adams

“ The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ”

- William James

“ Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Stardom is becoming, superstardom is being. ”

- Unknown

“ When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil. ”

- Lao tzu

“ Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process. ”

- Clara Barton

“ All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I looked someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted thier answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I as looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I could answer… ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Captial punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life. ”

- Orrin Hatch

“ The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error. ”

- Seneca

“ Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. ”

- Barbara Schapiro

“ There are two things people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise. ”

- Mary Kay Ash

“ A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Admiration; is our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

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

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths instead of your weaknesses; on your powers, instead of your problems. ”

- Paul J. Meyer

“ Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings. ”

- Simone Weil

“ Every job has drudgery, whether it is in the home, in the school, or in the office. The first secret of happiness is the recognition of this fundamental fact. ”

- M. C. McIntosh

“ Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence. ”

- Henry Van Dyke
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