Quotes about Recognition

No one is going to pay much attention to the person who has no confidence in himself.

We understand God best, Dorothy Sayers suggests, by thinking of God as a creative artist. Imagine God as an engineer or watchmaker or immovable force, and you will go astray. God's image shines through us most clearly in the act of creation-comprising the three stages of Idea, Expression, and Recognition-and by reproducing this act we may begin to grasp, by analogy, the Trinity.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults," said Pascal, "but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognize them.

We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

Sometimes you have to toot your own horn because nobody else is going to do it.

When I sit up here... I'm just blown away God even notices us...

One of humanity's most common character traits is ingratitude.

When this happens, something "clicks" within you, and you know you have found what you were created to do. It is an instinctive, gut-level, spiritual experience. You'll know it when you see, hear and feel it.

A person is a person because she recognizes others as persons.

Ultimately, forgiveness is a choice we make, and the ability to forgive others comes from the recognition that we are all flawed and all human. We all have made mistakes and harmed others. We will again. We find it easier to practice forgiveness when we can recognize that the roles could have been reversed.

If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

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