Appearance Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with…

— Charles Ferguson

Funny how we take our historical heritage can be proudof his chest, but these do not like to make the trade name of| Humanity're…

— Mak_786

If self-validation were our most significant societal measure - we would give trophies to ourselves.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.

— Charles Ives

If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens,…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces…

— William James

We have to get out of this cultural mindset of putting badges on ourselves and playing the martyr spinning 1,000 plates. We need to…

— Jo Frost

Sometimes our awards process can be very political in terms of just driving personal agendas, and I think we forget.

— Jaleel White

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who…

— Katherine Boo

We are more and more defined not by our friends but our political enemies - collecting them like badges of honor.

— S.E. Cupp

We don't need no stinking badges!

— John Belushi

If it awakens in us as a whole how important that is - the theme of how conquest and ambition are meaningless without contribution…

— Rob Morrow