Applause Quotes

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Dale Carnegie

Bills, Receipts

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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

Lynn Abbey

Literature, Unexpected, Compare

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Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Martin Yan

Meaningful, Believe, People

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What you applaud you encourage, but beware what you celebrate.

Ravi Zacharias

Encouraging, Praise, Celebrate

Twitter post from Jun 03, 2015

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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Edmund Burke

Encouraging, Encouragement, Mind

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Applause waits on success.

Benjamin Franklin

Success, Congratulations, Reality

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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

Love, Good Night, Men

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

Isaac Barrow

Sweet, Ears, Praise

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The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Samuel Johnson

Appreciation, Appreciate, Approval

Samuel Johnson (1798). “Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson”, p.91

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My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

Robert Montgomery

Clever, Believe, Advice

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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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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.

George Matthew Adams

Motivational, Success, Encouraging

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Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Janine Benyus

World, Pitching, Cooperation

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Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

Fate, Men, Battle

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That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

Andre Agassi

Peers, Persons

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There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

Herbert Marshall

Should, Economist

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With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.

William Shakespeare

Heart, Moon, Generosity

'Coriolanus' (1608) act 1, sc. 1, l. [218]

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There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Giving, Noise, Certain

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But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.

Jose Marti

Love, Sweet, Encouragement

"Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Richard Francis Burton

Life, Men, Self

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1880). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A Lay of the Higher Law”

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A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

Roger L'Estrange

Two, Scandal, Thirds

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When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

Ruth Brown

Dukes, Stood Up

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The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

Leni Riefenstahl

World, Numb, Loud

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The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acceptance, Silence, World

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Self-Reliance and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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