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Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least. Bart Simpson
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are paid with hatred rather than gratitude. Tacitus
A perfectly honest woman, a woman who never flatters, who never manages, who never cajoles, who never conceals, who never uses her eyes, who never speculates on the effect which she produces, who never is conscious of unspoken admiration, what a monster, I say, would such a female be! William Makepeace Thackeray
I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. Elbert Hubbard
Admiration: Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves. Ambrose Bierce
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. Tagore
Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude. Henry Ward Beecher
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. Walter Savage Landor
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit. Vauvenargues
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. Albert Einstein
The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody. Aristotle
There is innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has not yet occurred that they, too, might be admired someday. Nietzsche
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not. Sir George Seville
There is an ancient saying, famous among men that they shouldn't judge fully of a man’s life before he dies, whether it should be called blessed or wretched. Sophocles
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who owe us more than we wish. LA Rochefoucauld
I appreciate the fact that this draft was done in haste, but some of the sentences that you are sending out in the world to do your work for you are loitering in taverns or asleep beside the highway. Dwight Van DE Vate
A grateful mind, by owing owes not, but still pays at once; indebted and discharged. Milton
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. Samuel Johnson
Every artist love applause. The gratitude of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense. Rousseau
The great merit of society is to make one appreciate solitude. Herman Hesse
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as we are in a position to be beneficial. LA Rochefoucauld
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it. Franklin P Jones
Praise, though it be our due, is not like a blank-bill to be paid upon demand; to be valuable, it must be voluntary. Coll Cibber
The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was. Anonymous
Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them. Joseph Addison
A refined nature is vexed by knowing that someone owes it thanks, a course nature by knowing that it owes thanks to someone. Nietzsche
True praise comes often even to the lowly, false only to the strong. Seneca
In the majority of men gratitude is only a veiled desire of receiving greater benefaction. LA Rochefoucauld
To refuse approval is to seek it twice. Unknown
Raised of themselves, their genuine charms they boast, and those who paint them truest praise them the most. Joseph Addison
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject. William Hazlitt
Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. Edward Gibbon
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. Miguel DE Cervantes
Let others commend ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. Ovid
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. Pearl S. Buck
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful. Nietzsche
The most popular persons in society are those who take the world as it is, find the least fault, and have no hobbies. Charles Dudley Warner
There’s no acclaim to beat the sort you can put in your pocket. Moliere
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess. Walter Savage Landor
Gratefulness is the poor man’s payment. Proverb
Acclaim makes good men better and bad men worse. Thomas Fuller
The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones. Nathaniel Howe
God give you pardon from gratitude, and other mild forms of servitude. Robert Creeley
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. Mark Twain
Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. Shakespeare
Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will. Montaigne
The soil in return for her service keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free. Tagore
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. Charles Caleb Colton
Generally we praise only to receive the same. LA Rochefoucauld
On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten. Louis Kronenberger
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence. Lord Acton
Fame is like a river which bears up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. Francis Bacon
Public men are bees working in a glass hive; and curious spectators enjoy themselves in watching every secret movement, as if it were a study in natural history. Henry Ward Beecher
Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building the crowd breaks in, displacing his stones. Rainer Maria Rilke
Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions. Pliny the Younger
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk and at the same time one doesn’t like to confront them with their own great themes. Max Beerbohm
All fame is dangerous; good brings envy; bad, shame. Thomas Fuller
We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so. William Hazlitt
The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him. Epicurus
Though later to become a renowned actress, the young Maureen O’Hara got her “big break” by gaining the admiration of established actor Charles Laughton. Shortly before shooting their first film together, Laughton decreed during the following conversation:
“Maureen, you’re going to be just marvelous in this picture... but your name is too long for the marquee, and we have to change it.”
“But I don’t want to change my name.”
“Well, I’m sorry, but you have to. You can either be Maureen O-Mara or Maureen O’Hara; which do you prefer?”
“Neither; I’m Maureen FitzSimons.”
“So you’re Maureen O’Hara.”
In her autobiography, she relates, and so I was, and so I am.
Source: Tis Herself: An Autobiography by Maureen O'Hara and John Nicoletti
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. Eric Hoffer
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. Fred Allen
The whole earth is a sepulcher of famous men. Thucydides
The nearest way to glory, a short cut as it were; is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be. Socrates
Celebrity is the advantage of being known by those who don’t know you. Chamfort
Celebrity is a picture of myself as a marble bust with legs to run everywhere. Jean Cocteau
A man’s renown is like the hue of grass, which comes and goes. Dante
People that seem so glorious are all show. Underneath they are like anybody else. Euripides
If you wish to obtain a great name or to found an establishment, be completely mad; but be sure that your madness corresponds with the turn and temper of your age. Voltaire
High honors are sweet to a man’s heart, but ever they stand close to the brink of grief. Euripides
Glory comes from the unchanging din-din-din of one supreme gift. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Who has not for the sake of his good reputation; sacrificed himself once? Nietzsche
Attempting to make dinner reservations at an upscale restaurant, actress Celia Imrie recounts the following interchanges: “Hello, could I please reserve a table for three for to-night?” The waiter laughed at me down the line, “You are joking,” he sneered. “You’ll get absolutely nothing here at this short notice.” I put the phone down, seething. About a quarter of an hour later I phoned again. I changed my voice ever so slightly and said, “Hello, its Celia Imrie here. Might you have a table for me, Allan Bates and Allan Bennet to-night?” “Certainly, Ms. Imrie we have a splendid table available.” It was the first time that I fully realized the positive power of fame. It gets you through doors, but how unfair! Source: The Happy Hoofer by Celia Imrie
When I hear a man applauded by the crowd I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed at is to live long enough. H. L. Mencken
Glory is that bright tragic thing that for an instance means domination and warms some poor name that never felt the sun, gently replacing in oblivion. Emily Dickinson
We are all clever enough at envying a clever man while he is yet alive, and at praising him when he is dead. Terrence Cummings
The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great. Montaigne
False is the praise which says that men’s eminence comes from their noble qualities; for the people of this world as a rule do not care about a man’s true nature. Clarence Pierre
Admiration involves a glorious obliquity of vision. Max Beerbohm
Would you be known by everybody? Then you know nobody. Syrus
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rouges. Charles Caleb Colton
Thou shall confess the vain pursuit; of human glory yields no fruit, but an untimely grave. Thomas Carew
My slumber broken and my doublet torn; I find the laurel also bears a thorn. Walter Savage Landor
The shortest way to arrive at glory would be to do that for conscience which we do for glory. Montaigne
Reputation is often got without merit and lost without fault. Gerald Morley
People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self-outside themselves grow bright or dwindle in that mirror. Logan Pearsall Smith
We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine. Pascal
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. LA Rochefoucauld
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