Applause Quotes

317 quotes by 254 authors

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, youre in good shape. — L. Ron Hubbard
The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Iâ€™m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer,… — Jon Foreman
The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his… — Bertrand Russell
God gave music the power to carry his light into the darkness. Thatâ€™s a mighty privilege. It means intentionally telling stories and writing songs that… — Andrew Peterson
Well, I think if more people had more applause, it would make them feel better. I often give my wife a round of applause. If… — Tom Baker
Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns. — Warren Buffett
Those who play for applause....Tha tâ€™s all they get. — Wynton Marsalis
The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility. — Alec Guinness
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it! — Tom Peters
Nothing would turn the nation back to God so surely and so quickly as a Church that prayed and prevailed. The world will never believe… — Samuel Chadwick
A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood… — W. S. Gilbert
Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one… — Claude C. Hopkins
Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on.… — H. L. Mencken
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves. — Richard Whately
It takes two hands to clap. — Jiang Zemin
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause. — David Hume
When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause. — Jim Gaffigan
The more you worry about being applauded by others and making money, the less you'll focus on doing the great work that will generate applause.… — Robin Sharma
Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn… — Unknown Author

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