Appreciated Quotes - Page 2

• Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

  Tacitus

  Character, Age, Noble

  Cornelius Tacitus, Harold Mattingly (1965). “Tacitus on Britain and Germany: a translation of the Agricola and the Germania”

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• Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

  Harold Pinter

  Light, Literature, Beckett

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• Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.

  Ralph Marston

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're innocent; flowers, they're innocent. Divert your attention to all these things.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Children

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• I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Perseverance, Challenges, Charm

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• In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.

  Will Smith

  Real, White, Community

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• (Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

  Abraham Maslow

  Thanksgiving, Appreciation, Gratitude

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

  Christiane Northrup

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

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• When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Charity, Philanthropy

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.121

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• The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.

  George Washington

  Veterans Day, Military, War

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• I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

  Andy Rooney

  Compassion, Shells, Want

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• No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

  Christopher Morley

  Dog, Appreciation, Silly

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Appreciate, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.347, Harvard University Press

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• That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

  David Amram

  People, Done, Want

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• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

  Virginia Satir

  Motivational, Family, Appreciation

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• The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

  Gerard Butler

  Chance

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• I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

  Jim Carrey

  Funny, Stupid, Support

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• Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Art, Important, Opera

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• Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Literature, Rudeness, Manners

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• I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.

  Ed Gillespie

  Past, Years, Political

  Interview with PBS, www.pbs.org.

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• Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

  Blaise Pascal

  May, Cold, Abandoned

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.98, Courier Corporation

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• I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

  Jose Saramago

  Positive, Hero, Writing

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and savor variations of the kind best appreciated if most days are the same.

  Edward Hoagland

  Funny, Life, Country

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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