Acknowledgment Quotes

• The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Kingdoms, Helping, Significance

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, p.567, Leo Tolstoy

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• It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

  John Eldredge

  Healing, Acknowledgement, Wounded

  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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• Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen,
  well-timed, sincere words of praise.
  They're absolutely free and worth a fortune

  Sam Walton

  Leadership, Appreciation, Team Building

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• By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Mistake

  "Two Secrets To A Better You' by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2009.

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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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• Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Responsibility, Self, Law

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• No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.

  Margery Wilson

  Success, Deep Within, Could Have Been

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• After years of denial and deception, the Philip Morris company has admitted that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases. This formal acknowledgment comes far too late but still we must all welcome it. It can be the beginning of clearing the air.

  William J. Clinton

  Cancer, Air, Years

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.1762, Best Books on

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• As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

  William Hazlitt

  Art, Lying, Hypocrisy

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1319, Delphi Classics

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• Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Freedom, Levels, Bears

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1935). “Conversations with Goethe”

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• True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

  Ray Stedman

  Prayer, Adequacy, Needs

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• There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.

  Jodie Foster

  Mom, Growing Up, Kids

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• And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works

  Frederic Bastiat

  Should Have, Trying, Liberty

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• The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

  Bhikkhu Analayo

  Honesty, Self Esteem, Deception

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• Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

  Marshall Faulk

  Sports, Football, Kids

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• Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately - many people will help you unintentionally.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Honesty, Writing, People

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• There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.

  Sharon Gless

  Baby, Praise, Raises

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• You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.

  Lucy Liu

  Nice, People, Actors

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• Mindy Kaling gets her own line in the acknowledgments, as previously negotiated by her representatives. Thanks, Mindy. I love you and you're the best.

  B. J. Novak

  Love You, Lines, Thanks

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• Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Europe, Jewish Life, Void

  "Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

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• I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Earth, Reason

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.419, Oxford University Press, USA

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• There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, 'twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments.

  William Penn

  Real, Air, Forgive And Forget

  "Some Fruits of Solitude In Reflections And Maxims". Book by William Penn. Part 1: "Friendship", www.bartleby.com. 1682.

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• Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings - an awareness of the tragic sense of life.

  Sam Keen

  Love Is, Compassion, Foundation

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• In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

  Pliny the Elder

  Compare, Former, Various

  "Natural History". Book by Pliny the Elder (Book I, Dedication, sec. 22.), 1669.

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