Acknowledgment Quotes

• The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Kingdoms, Helping, Significance

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, p.567, Leo Tolstoy

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• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

  John Eldredge

  Healing, Acknowledgement, Wounded

  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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• Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
  well-timed, sincere words of praise.
  They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

  Sam Walton

  Leadership, Appreciation, Team Building

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• By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Mistake

  "Two Secrets To A Better You' by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2009.

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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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• Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Responsibility, Self, Law

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• No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.

  Margery Wilson

  Success, Deep Within, Could Have Been

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• The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Inspirational, Loss, Weakness

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• For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

  Susan Abulhawa

  Healing, Taught, Committed

  Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.197, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

  Sam Keen

  Love Is, Compassion, Foundation

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• The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

  Bhikkhu Analayo

  Honesty, Self Esteem, Deception

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• There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

  William Penn

  Real, Air, Forgive And Forget

  "Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims". Book by William Penn. Part 1: "Friendship", www.bartleby.com. 1682.

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• There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.

  Jodie Foster

  Mom, Growing Up, Kids

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• There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

  Sharon Gless

  Baby, Praise, Raises

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• In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

  Pliny the Elder

  Compare, Former, Various

  "Natural History". Book by Pliny the Elder (Book I, Dedication, sec. 22.), 1669.

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• Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Men, Islam, Submission

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• There was something I needed to say. “Sorry. About before.” Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable, as always. He looked back out at the water. I didn’t expect any more acknowledgment than that. Fang never- “You almost gave me a heart attack,” he said quietly. “When I saw you, and all that blood . . .” He threw a small rock as hard as he could down the beach. “I’m sorry.” “Don’t do it again,” he said. I swallowed hard. “I won’t.” Something changed right then, but I didn’t know what.

  James Patterson

  Beach, Sorry, Heart

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• But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live.

  Steve Almond

  Distance, Dirty, Fog

  Steve Almond (2007). “(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions”, p.33, Random House

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• When you look back on a lifetime and think of what has been given to the world by your presence, your fugitive presence, inevitably you think of your art, whatever it may be, as the gift you have made to the world in acknowledgment of the gift you have been given, which is the life itself... That work is not an expression of the desire for praise or recognition, or prizes, but the deepest manifestation of your gratitiude for the gift of life.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Art, Thinking, Expression

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• Feminist education — the feminist classroom — is and should be a place where there is a sense of struggle, where there is visible acknowledgment of the union of theory and practice, where we work together as teachers and students to overcome the estrangement and alienation that have become so much the norm in the contemporary university.

  Bell Hooks

  Teacher, Struggle, Practice

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.63, Routledge

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• As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Lying, Hypocrisy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

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• Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

  Marshall Faulk

  Sports, Football, Kids

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• Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately - many people will help you unintentionally.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Honesty, Writing, People

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• True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

  Ray Stedman

  Prayer, Adequacy, Needs

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