Recognizing Quotes

• It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Relationship, Confidence, Self Esteem

  78 Copy quote

• There are two things people want more than sex and money - recognition and praise.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Appreciation, Money, Sex

  "The Greatest Management Principle in the World". Book by Michael LeBoeuf, p. 97, 1985.

  96 Copy quote

  Show source

• We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Focus, Vision

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.186, Courier Corporation

  10 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  288 Copy quote

• By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

  Johannes Stark

  Taken, Humanity, Steps

  45 Copy quote

• It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

  David Bowie

  Intelligent, People, Judgement

  13 Copy quote

• My key to living an inspired life involves Embracing my history, Understanding the function of expectations and gently learning to have none; Recognizing the power of attentive and conscious choices. In all circumstances I acknowledge this, IN ALL THINGS AND ALL WAYS, I HAVE CHOICE. My choice resides in my perspective. While I certainly do not control climate and markets and roadways and others, I do control myself and my response to all those circumstances. I do indeed.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Learning, Keys, Control Myself

  10 Copy quote

• But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

  Seamus Heaney

  Mean, Perception, Brutality

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.421, Macmillan

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, People, Literature

  10 Copy quote

• It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.

  Andrew Shue

  Believe, Journey, Numbers

  7 Copy quote

• And so we try to address those concerns in every way possible, recognizing, again, in the final analysis, everybody on that flight wants to be assured with the highest level of confidence that everybody else on that flight has been properly screened, and including me and you and everybody.

  John S. Pistole

  Confidence, Trying, Finals

  Senate hearing on TSA, www.cnet.com. November 16, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• People are recognizing that I am an entrepreneur and do more than be on a reality TV show.

  Kim Kardashian

  Reality, Tv Shows, People

  "Kardashian fame and fragrance". Interview With Trish Crawford, www.thestar.com. April 28, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.

  Star Jones

  World, Dies, Ifs

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. January 10, 2006.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2013

  115 Copy quote

  Show source

• Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Appreciation

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.69, Mango Media Inc.

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord

  Henri Nouwen

  Eye, Ears, Life Is

  74 Copy quote

• It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.

  Peter Abelard

  Inspirational, Truth, Doubt

  113 Copy quote

• Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I'm a Muslim and 'randomly' pull me aside for 'special treatment'. My sincere hope and prayer is that, on the Day of Judgment, my Lord's angels also recognize me as a Muslim and pull me aside for special treatment

  Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi

  Prayer, Islamic, Angel

  73 Copy quote

• I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Rights, Novelists

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.78, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

  Pope Pius XI

  God, Christian, Jesus

  72 Copy quote

• It's better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.

  Dan Millman

  Motivational, Mistake, Mean

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

  58 Copy quote

  Show source

• you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Government, Space, People

  A Confederacy of Dunces (published 1980), ch.9, pt.1.

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Truth, America, Facts

  16 Copy quote

• We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

  Friedrich Koenig

  Love, Life, Happiness

  77 Copy quote

• The wounded recognized the wounded.

  Nora Roberts

  Recognition, Similarity, Recognise

  Nora Roberts (2006). “The Quinn Brothers: 2-in-1”, p.309, Penguin

  39 Copy quote

  Show source