Acknowledgement Quotes

• No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Thank You, Wise

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• Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Sunshine, Reflection

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Ends

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

  Kara Goucher

  Motivational, Running, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Kara Goucher from Oct 10, 2013

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• If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.

  Octavio Paz

  Thank You, Gratitude, Water

  Octavio Paz (1990). “Búsqueda Del Presente”, Harcourt

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• We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.

  Zachary Quinto

  Accountability, Visibility, Treats

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• Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.

  Barry Long

  Alive, Way

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• Leaders don't look for recognition from others, leaders look for others to recognize.

  Simon Sinek

  Leader, Looks, Recognition

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2012

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• Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.

  Jack Canfield

  Success, Confidence, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Aug 08, 2013

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• A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

  John Eldredge

  Healing, Wounded, Weeping

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.106, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they feel underappreciated; 61% said their bosses don't place much importance on them as people, and 88% said they do not receive acknowledgement for the work they do.

  Jack Canfield

  People, Boss, Leaving

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• The first step on the path to positive change is acknowledgement that change is necessary and possible. Open yourself to the possibility of seeing the world in a new way. What do you have to lose?

  Alex Blackwell

  World, Way, Path

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• You must be prepared to work always without applause.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Appreciation, Work, Novelists

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1053, Simon and Schuster

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• Our self-acknowledgement, our dedication has to be bigger than our fear.

  Rod Stryker

  Dedication, Self, Bigger

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• Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that theres nothing else you could have done.

  Hannah Kearney

  Simple, Advice, Coaching

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• The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.

  Jay Asher

  Book, People, Way

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• To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Yesterday, Today, Realizing

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• Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

  Joy Bryant

  Compassion, Shoes, Luxury

  "Interview: Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

  Jeet Thayil

  Waiting, Glances

  Jeet Thayil (2012). “Narcopolis”, p.21, Faber & Faber

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• With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Discipline, Coherence, Facts

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• Money isn't what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement-a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged.

  Reuben Singh

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Craving

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• Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.

  Abba Eban

  Israel, United States, Arabia

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• In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and threats, all of which are propped up by the repeated narrative now that women are 'playing the gender card'. And this is the final insult. That of all the unfair things associated with women - the violence and insults, the financial oppression, the very undermining of our worth as human beings - it is the acknowledgement of these inequalities that gives us some kind of unfair advantage over the men who benefit from them.

  Clementine Ford

  Women, Giving, Benefits

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• Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.

  Roy Moore

  Country, Deny, Bases

  "Defender of the Decalogue". Interview with Thomas R. Eddlem, www.thenewamerican.com. November 21, 2002.

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