Acknowledgement Quotes

• No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Thank You, Wise

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• Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Ends

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Sunshine, Reflection

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.

  Octavio Paz

  Thank You, Gratitude, Water

  Octavio Paz (1990). “Búsqueda Del Presente”, Harcourt

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• We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.

  Zachary Quinto

  Accountability, Visibility, Treats

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• Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

  Kara Goucher

  Motivational, Running, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Oct 10, 2013

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• Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.

  Barry Long

  Alive, Way

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• Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.

  Simon Sinek

  Leader, Looks, Recognition

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2012

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• A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

  John Eldredge

  Healing, Wounded, Weeping

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.106, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.

  Jack Canfield

  Success, Confidence, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Aug 08, 2013

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• You must be prepared to work always without applause.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Work, Novelists

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1053, Simon and Schuster

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• A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they feel underappreciated; 61% said their bosses don't place much importance on them as people, and 88% said they do not receive acknowledgement for the work they do.

  Jack Canfield

  People, Boss, Leaving

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• The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?

  Alex Blackwell

  World, Way, Path

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• To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Yesterday, Today, Realizing

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• Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

  Joy Bryant

  Compassion, Shoes, Luxury

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that theres nothing else you could have done.

  Hannah Kearney

  Simple, Advice, Coaching

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• We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

  Jeet Thayil

  Waiting, Glances

  Jeet Thayil (2012). “Narcopolis”, p.21, Faber & Faber

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• Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement-a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.

  Reuben Singh

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Craving

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• The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

  Jay Asher

  Book, People, Way

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• With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Discipline, Coherence, Facts

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• Paying people a fair wage is a sign of respect and acknowledgement of the value of people's contributions to the business. When people are treated fairly and with respect, they will provide unparalleled levels of support and commitment inside the business, and to clients and customers. Everyone is more successful when people are paid a living wage.

  Amy B. Lyman

  Commitment, Successful, People

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• In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Giving, Benefits

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• For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Simple, Wish, Worthy

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.2065, Macmillan

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• I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Equality, Men

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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