APPRECIATION

Related Subjects: Criticism, Esteem, Gratitude, Knowledge

1. Men should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of their own.—ISAAC BARROW
   

2. I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough.—ELIZABETH A. BIBESCO, Balloons
   

3. As some stay against this wretched self-distrust, this bankruptcy of confidence, you must have the recognition of others. There are times when your own approval is enough. There are times when it seems as nothing and even so you cannot get it. Then a single word of appreciation may bring heaven to you.—GAMALIEL BRADFORD, American Portraits
   

4. The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other is universally condemned.—DALE CARNEGIE, How to Win Friends
   

5. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty, the power of appreciating beauty.—MARGARET FULLER

6. To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.—GOETHE
   

7. Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.—HAWTHORNE, The Marble Faun
   

8. We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed or damps our efforts.—HAZLITT
   

9. It shall belong hereafter to all who perceive and enjoy it,
   Rather than him who made it.—W. D. HOWELLS, Pordenone
   

10. The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.—WILLIAM JAMES
    

11. No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.—W. S. LANDOR
    

12. It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who are entirely deprived of them can neither appreciate nor comprehend them.—LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims
    

13. He is incapable of a truly good action who knows not the pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.—LAVATER
    

14. The more enlarged is our own mind, the greater number we discover of men of originality. Your commonplace people see no difference between one man and another.—PASCAL
    

15. It is a matter of the simplest demonstration, that no man can be really appreciated but by his equal or superior.—RUSKIN
    

16. By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property.—VOLTAIRE
    

17. She must be seen to be appreciated.—W. H. AINSWORTH, Old Saint Paul's