Top 66 Applaud Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Applaud Quotes from famous people such as Miriam Makeba, Chris Sununu, Paul Nehlen, Ana Navarro, Stan Van Gundy, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discourage

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.
Miriam Makeba
We put no greater trust in our government than when we turn on our faucet expecting clean water, and I applaud the Drinking Water and Groundwater Advisory Commission for their hard work in addressing this critical priority.
Chris Sununu
Mr. Trump is unifying the party, and I applaud him for that.
Paul Nehlen
I think you can applaud President Trump’s efforts on health care if that’s where you lie. I think you can applaud his naming of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, but I think when he does something like make a veiled threat against the former FBI Director… I think people expect for leaders to step up and condemn that.
Ana Navarro
I applaud the professional athletes using their platform to voice their opinions.
Stan Van Gundy
Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they – not someone else – must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
Ernest Istook
The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.
Donald Evans
Thinking that we have touched ARMY members is something I would like to applaud ourselves for.
Kim Tae-hyung
I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
Gary Oldman
I love Major League Soccer, covered the first game in 1996 in a funky stadium in San Jose, and I applaud just about every move that its commissioners, Garber and Doug Logan, have made.
George Vecsey
It’s fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn’t bother me – it’s part of performance experience.
Hilary Hahn
I never read my reviews… not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn’t applaud, it bothers her. I’m the same way. I’d be devastated to read that someone didn’t like my work.
Pat Conroy
It’s a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride where we don’t.
Howard Jacobson
I love New York audiences, because they’re used to going to shows, and you really notice it. They laugh and applaud and do all the things that you want an audience to do.
Courtney Act
I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
John Lydon
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Aesop
So don’t applaud. Just send me the check.
Broderick Crawford
I was really surprised to see how critical the Malayali audiences are. It is really overwhelming that people genuinely want good scripts and do not miss a chance to applaud good scripts.
Joy Mathew
I’m grateful to women who have the privilege and ability to tell their stories and applaud them for doing that. And also recognize that there are many, many women in this country who will never have that opportunity.
Cecile Richards
But I applaud my parents for they never really put us in hell. Whatever, emotionally, they were going through… they made sure they never took that out at home.
Kalyani Priyadarshan
We applaud any company making business decisions that empower women.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
I applaud President Obama for launching his ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ initiative that is aimed to empower our youth to achieve success.
Charles B. Rangel
The fans, man, the fans have a little different way of thinking. They really applaud the spirit of fighters, and that put a huge influence on the type of energy I fought with, rather than if I won or lost. America’s a real win-or-lose culture, where with the Japanese, fighting with spirit is enough.
Eddie Alvarez
I applaud Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison and the legislators in the Nevada State Senate who have introduced SB 26 to fight the BDS movement in Nevada.
Jacky Rosen
Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don’t rain on their parade. Don’t say, ‘That’s not true.’ Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
Gail Carson Levine
As an OB-GYN physician, I understand the importance of protecting Americans from sexually transmitted diseases, and I applaud the development of an HPV vaccine. But for states to mandate vaccination for young women is both unprecedented and unacceptable.
Phil Gingrey
If someone called and the role was good and there was dignity and integrity in the piece, I’d be up for it, of course I would. It’s so hard for older women in acting so when you hear of an older woman having a renaissance in their career, I really applaud it.
Carol Drinkwater
The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There’s nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up – because that’s all you.
Aries Spears
I don’t want my kids to be raised thinking they’ll get into a park and people applaud.
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
People pitch me all the time. But hopefully, you’ll just go ahead and do it. We are trying to eliminate the need for pitches. I’d rather sit there and applaud. Customers buy products, not Powerpoint presentations.
Scott Cook
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
Barbra Streisand
You can't applaud a referee.

You can’t applaud a referee.
Alex Ferguson
Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
Vicente Fox
We’re criminalizing economic inability to stay out of the system. Women get penalized more than men for the same crime; blacks get penalized more than whites for the same crime. We need to bring out more into the light, because it’s not fair… I applaud Colin Kaepernick for speaking out.
Martina Navratilova
We actively encourage teenagers not to have babies, we applaud young career women in their twenties, then before you know it you find yourself, as I did, aged 32 at a friend’s wedding and being quizzed by everyone about why you haven’t got round to reproducing yet.
Kate Garraway
The music is something outside myself that’s also inside myself… Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.
John Tavener
Joe DeGuardia, I love that guy. He’s not a superstar promoter yet, but he will be. He was a fighter himself; he’s staying the course with these guys. He’s developing some good fighters out there. I really applaud him whenever I get a chance to.
Gerry Cooney
Even more than results, it matters that the players give everything for their shirt, and if they do that whether they’re relegated or not, the fans are ready to applaud.
Antonio Conte
While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
Ed Pastor
I applaud Women in Film – not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.
Cate Blanchett
The very welfare state the Occupy Wall Street protesters so eagerly applaud is what has saddled Greece with colossal debt and left its economy on the brink of collapse, igniting violent protests across the nation.
Kayleigh McEnany
I applaud women, and I did my best and took my time after having a kid – in a healthy way, get back to a place where I felt good in my body.
Jennifer Nettles
The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they’re quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
Arthur Scargill
I love looking at people who have achieved a lot – even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.
Tamara Ecclestone
As long as you’ve got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous, is when clubs accept fools.
Sepp Blatter
Jurgen Klopp coming into this country, you just have to applaud him for his tactics and the way Liverpool play.
Steve Bruce
If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we’re all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her.
Psy
There’s all these costs of war, and they’re huge and long-lasting. It’s not just the numbers CNN broadcasts. And we never want to pay the VA bill; we never want to pay the bill to take care of these warriors after we applaud their sacrifice.
Debra Granik
I don’t like the energy at award shows. It’s rehearsed and everybody is just focused on themselves and nobody wants to genuinely applaud for anyone else. People aren’t even listening if someone is giving a speech on stage.
Vaani Kapoor
I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
Allyson Schwartz
When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.
Simon Hoggart
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers