Top 399 Recognition Quotes

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Alexander Smith
There are two things people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise.
Mary Kay Ash
I always had good recognition from the Southern writers, but the publishers never took any notice of that.
William Jay Smith
I could’ve made more of an effort to go back to theatre but I fell into the trap of recognition, fame and money.
Alok Nath
I’d grown accustomed to seeing myself as someone who, if fallible and unworthy, had nevertheless managed to do one thing well enough to get recognition for it.
Philip Schultz
I think there’s a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that’s going on in every country around the world, actually.
Quentin Bryce
I started to get my doctorate, not to be called ‘doctor.’ Those are just little things you get to get recognition.
John Kani
Mass immigration changes countries beyond recognition. Ordinary people are well aware of that.
Geert Wilders
The basis for securing preferential future trade terms with India begins in that recognition of essential equality. Indeed it begins in recognising that India is now an emerging global superpower whose primary interests are regional in South East Asia and who needs a deal with the U.K. less than we need one with her.
Barry Gardiner
I’ve never wanted fame. I’ve only ever wanted recognition.
Joe Calzaghe
Even if the Constitution of the United States had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of effect, and been legally void, because slavery then had no constitutional existence to be recognized.
Lysander Spooner
The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It’s a world that needs women.
Helen Mirren
When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
A supermodel is kind of that first-name recognition, but I’m not quite ready for that super part yet, and I’m afraid that by the time I am, I’m going to be too old anyway.
Chrissy Teigen
Runners are competitive folks. I think some might feel slighted they haven’t got more recognition. I think they have a point. In running, you won’t necessarily get noticed just for turning in good performances.
Dean Karnazes
I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
Stephen Harper
I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.
Kendrick Lamar
Ever since Pele's extraordinary talents blessed the wor

Ever since Pele’s extraordinary talents blessed the world of football, black footballers have been accepted in the pantheon of the greats. But to achieve commercial recognition is somewhat different: it requires a form of adulation that also spells identification and role model.
Martin Jacques
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there’s no longer the merchandising aspect.
Grant Morrison
I feel happy here in Tottenham because I feel the recognition for our job.
Mauricio Pochettino
All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test… better. It’s a negotiation tool.
Michael Gurian
There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.
Ma Jun
Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.
Reuven Rivlin
I do look better on TV. In real life, I look scruffy and pale, and I get the worst kind of recognition… I get the ‘Haven’t we met somewhere before?’ I suggest it might be because I’m on the telly, and they say, ‘No, it’s definitely not that. Wasn’t it at so-and-so’s party?’
Tom Ward
Sometimes I fantasize that all my furniture has been destroyed in a cataclysm, and I have to start again with only the stationery catalogue. My entire house would become an office, which would be an overt recognition of the existing state of affairs.
Hilary Mantel
I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
Billie Jean King
The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.
Lewis Thomas
Our trials and our times of pain get the most recognition, but ‘Straight Outta Compton’ speaks to triumph. When it’s doubtful, when nobody is on your side, when your back is against the wall, you triumph and make it through. Showing growth through movies promotes growth.
O’Shea Jackson, Jr.
Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human life.
Orrin Hatch
The biggest of the big ideas that guided the strategy during the surge was explicit recognition that the most important terrain in the campaign in Iraq was the human terrain – the people – and our most important mission was to improve their security.
David Petraeus
Neurologically, I’m a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I’m sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.
Chuck Close
TV has given me some amazing opportunities, recognition, love, and fame.
Jennifer Winget
Canada has, entrenched in our Constitution, a world-leading recognition of Indigenous rights.
Erin O’Toole
Two-footed players always get a lot more recognition, so I always practised as a kid with my right foot.
John McGinn
I don’t really think about recognition; I’m not really involved.
Skrillex
It was complicated at Madrid. I was suspicious. The lack of recognition for Makelele over there scared me. I was scared it would happen to me. But I should have gone there. Today, I don’t regret the career that I have had, but if I could have changed one thing, it would be that: to go to Madrid.
Patrick Vieira
Whatever we take from a film – personal, public, private, subconscious – a list can only contain moments that are often a key to the recognition of something more complex.
Lynne Ramsay
You see a lot of fighters who just got into the UFC getting a lot more recognition than the people who have been in there.
Stephen Thompson
When you’re a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
Zig Ziglar
I am completely grateful and pleased for the attention and the recognition I’ve received for playing the roles that I’ve played.
Sara Ramirez
Actually, my career as a music director turned out to be a disappointment. I believed I gave good songs but the response and recognition from the industry was not great.
Vijay Antony
We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.
Ryan Holiday
I get called ‘the girl off the dancing horse.’ I just laugh; I think it’s really funny. It’s true, isn’t it? It’s great we’re getting that recognition.
Charlotte Dujardin
It wasn’t the muso thing that got me recognition in the beginning. It was doing ‘Wild Thing.’
Jeff Beck
Speech recognition today doesn’t really work in noisy environments.
Andrew Ng
Producers are the people behind the biggest artists in the game. We definitely deserve that title to be considered as an artist, because producers don’t get the recognition and the credit that they really deserve a lot of the time.
Murda Beatz
Having a big brother who taught me protections and blitz recognition has helped out a lot.
Derek Carr
Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played

Many of the greatest black athletes of all time played baseball for no money and no recognition. I’m just sorry many major league fans never got to see them play, because many of them were awesome.
Monte Irvin
The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate… is a totalitarian’s dream.
Steven Pinker
It’s so ironic – when you finally achieve recognition, you hide behind dark glasses.
Madhuri Dixit
I am really happy with the increased recognition that goalkeepers are getting now. I’m glad to be a leading part of that.
Alisson
People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that’s where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It’s a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
Gagan Narang
Conservatives reveal themselves through their care for ordinary human things, and their recognition of the fragility of decency and the need to protect it.
Roger Scruton
I mean, for me, the reason I ride my bike and race is because I love doing it, not because I’m seeking recognition for it.
Lizzie Armitstead
If I’m a content creator, and I get recognition for my work, that’s going to motivate me to spend even more time on my next production and make it even better.
Nick Woodman