Applause Quotes

317 quotes by 252 authors

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how… — George Matthew Adams
To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. — Ezra Taft Benson
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. — Edmund Burke
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . — Dale Carnegie
Applause is a receipt, not a bill. — Dale Carnegie
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing… — Ted Allen
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism. — Franz Grillparzer
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. — Samuel Johnson
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause. — Sydney J. Harris
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it — Robert Montgomery
There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than… — Eddie Rickenbacker
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause. — Robert Breault
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage. — Augustus
I can't hear the critics talking over the applause. — Drake
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put… — William Shakespeare
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor. — Joseph Addison
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. — Horace

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