Quotes about Recognition

Being continually in people?s sight, by the satiety which it creates, diminishes the reverence felt for great characters.

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.

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If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.

Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.

No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.

We understand God best, Dorothy Sayers suggests, by thinking of God as a creative artist. Imagine God as an engineer or watchmaker or immovable force, and you will go astray. God's image shines through us most clearly in the act of creation-comprising the three stages of Idea, Expression, and Recognition-and by reproducing this act we may begin to grasp, by analogy, the Trinity.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults," said Pascal, "but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognize them.

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.