Applause Quotes - Page 11

• The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

  Bertrand Russell

  Exercise, Skills, Satisfaction

  Bertrand Russell (2012). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.104, Routledge

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• There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to a pilot than the applause of the whole outside world.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Congratulations, Air, Victory

  Eddie Rickenbacker (2012). “Fighting the Flying Circus”, p.48, Tales End Press

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• I’m really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else’s applause. That’s a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.

  Jon Foreman

  Church, That One Person, Responsible

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• I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time, my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first actors in Hollywood to start his own production company, and I respected him because he created something he believed in.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Successful, Accomplishment, Role Models

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

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• From self alone expect applause.

  Marion LeRoy Burton

  Acceptance, Self

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• One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

  Robert Breault

  Humble, Humility, Criticism

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• Nothing would turn the nation back to God so surely and so quickly as a Church that prayed and prevailed. The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no supernatural power. A rationalized faith, a socialized Church and a moralized gospel may gain applause, but they awaken no conviction and win no converts.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Believe, Winning, Church

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• Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does with what you know of your own abilities, you may be confusing applause with achievement.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Success, Thinking, People

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• Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Real, Silence, Impression

  Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

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• Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

  Guy Finley

  Stress, Crowds, Want

  Guy Finley (2010). “The Secret of Letting Go”, p.105, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

  Joseph Addison

  Independent, Greatness, Men

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.227

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• I can't hear the critics talking over the applause.

  Drake

  Hater, Humble, Talking

  Song: Congratulations

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• There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ambition, Purple, Luxury

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• If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

  Augustus

  Latin, Hands, Stage

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• All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.

  Selena

  Dream, Fans, Asking

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• [W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.

  Vincent de Paul

  World, Glitter, Sparkle

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• ...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover that they can without difficulty write in like manner themselves and win applause for it. And so it perpetuates itself.

  George Albert Wells

  Reading, Writing, Science

  George Albert Wells (1991). “Belief and make-believe: critical reflections on the sources of credulity”, Open Court Pub Co

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• I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.

  Fred Astaire

  Dance, Feet, Messages

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• Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. ... He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause. ... They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Moon, People, Waiting

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• There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.

  Gloria Gaither

  Decision, Sound, May

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• The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Missing, Trying, Purpose

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• The applause of the audience is short-lived. When calls resound for an encore, we are called to direct our attention to our Master.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Attention, Masters, Audience

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• Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

  Charles Lamb

  Strong, Drinking, Men

  Charles Lamb (1856). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.271

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• When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of our day-to-day lives. We do not live for the applause of heaven. Our longings are not for people's approval but only for more and more of Him. We are marked by an effortless, unshakable strength that is found in the presence of our perfect Lover.

  Leslie Ludy

  Christian, Inspiration, People

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• Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?

  Gloria Estefan

  Speak, Said, Audience

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