Appreciation Quotes - Page 39

• Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American, do but minister to the added wretchedness of the unfortunate; first, by prohibiting their acceptance of what little random relief charity may offer; and, second, by furnishing them with the keenest appreciation of the smarting distinction between their ideal of universal equality and their grind-stone experience of the practical misery and infamy of poverty.

  Herman Melville

  Acceptance, Political, Poverty

  Herman Melville (2012). “The Encantadas and Other Stories”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• He, who, in view of its inconsistencies, says of human nature the same that, in view of its contrasts, is said of the divine nature, that it is past finding out, thereby evinces a better appreciation of it than he who, by always representing it in a clear light, leaves it to be inferred that he clearly knows all about it.

  Herman Melville

  Past, Light, Views

  Herman Melville (1988). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.464, Northwestern University Press

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• It doesn't make any difference how much money a father earns, his name is always Dad-Can-I.... Like all other children, my five have one great talent: they are gifted beggars. Not one of them ever ran into the room, looked up at me, and said, "I'm really happy that you're my father, and as a tangible token of my appreciation, here's a dollar.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Dad, Father

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• The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral. It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Most teachers waste their time by asking questions that are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning is to discover what the pupil does know or is capable of knowing.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Art, Children

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• Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a lasting impression that can bring more gratitude into the world-for children and adults.

  Janice Kaplan

  Motivational, Gratitude, Children

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• The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.

  Richard Jordan

  Love, Gratitude, Motivation

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• The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,... that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one's own death as a necessary process of nature.... It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Wisdom, Real, Acceptance

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• The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on a banana peel and falling on your ass. You got to move the audience a little further ahead in terms of their appreciation of what is comedy. It's complicated.

  Mel Brooks

  Moving, Fall, Brave

  "Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 13, 2012.

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  You have nothing. One should never allow themselves to think that they have, one can just touch - to have is to lack appreciation, to touch is to want to touch again.

  Robert Plant

  Thinking, Want, Should

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men.

  Evan Thomas

  War, Moving, Men

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• [I]t's an honor to be a food stamp president. Food stamps feed the hungry. Food stamps save the children. Food stamps help the farmer. Food stamps help the truck driver. Food stamps help the warehouse. Food stamps help the store. Food stamps hire people and feed people. Food stamps save people from starvation and malnutrition. ... Give President Barack Obama a big hand. Show your love. Show your appreciation.

  Jesse Jackson

  Children, Hands, Giving

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• Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

  Isabella Bird

  Travel, Home, Prejudice

  Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• When the U.S. Government shows a proper appreciation of the services of the Negro who has never failed it in every crisis of its history to do his whole duty, to shed his blood freely in its behalf . . . then, and not till then, will I be heard.

  Francis James Grimke

  Government, Blood, Duty

  Francis James Grimké (1942). “The Works of Francis J. Grimke,̀: Edited by Carter G. Woodson...”

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• Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Passion, Role Models, Noble

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• To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  May, Action, Sincerity

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• Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

  Josh Billings

  Eye, Men, Glasses

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  Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

  Gail Devers

  Motivational, Faith, Sports

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

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• Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

  James Joyce

  Gratitude, Regret, Grateful

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.740, Delphi Classics

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• When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank you" to express authentic gratitude? We can enrich the lives of others and ourselves by making it a habit to express genuine appreciation for what others have done for us.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Being Thankful, Done

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• Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given us.

  Michael Josephson

  Gratitude, Caring, Being Thankful

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• I move through my day-to-day life with a sense of appreciation and gratitude that comes from knowing how fortunate I truly am and how unearned all that I am thankful for really is. To have this perspective in my everyday consciousness is in itself a gift, for it leads to feeling "graced," or blessed, each time. . . . Every time I see beauty around me I appreciate what I am seeing, and simultaneously I have this sense of appreciation-for being alive to have this particular moment.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Gratitude, Moving, Blessed

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• Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at last, only to end up in a hole in the ground before your companions. The favored pastime of businessmen and their cronies, probably without a full appreciation of its metaphorical implications.

  Rick Bayan

  Art, Golf, Arriving

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• I don't believe UPA government did nothing; they did whatever they could and they deserve appreciation for whatever good they did.

  Narendra Modi

  Believe, Emotional, Government

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• Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

  Cheng Man-ch'ing

  Beauty, Death, Rain

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• Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

  Carol Channing

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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