Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Their silence is praise enough.

Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

I accept all awards. I like them.

...a little "appreciation" sometimes does quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

Every actor gets their due.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought. It encourages our business to be competitive in absolutely the wrong way. We're not sportsmen; we're not trying to come in first.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment.

You don't ask what a dance means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what the world means. You enjoy it. You don't ask what you mean. You enjoy it.

I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen.

Our praises are our wages.

...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

Good things should be praised.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.