Ashleigh Brilliant Quotes

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.

If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

I'm tired of justifying what I've said.

Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

I don't have a sense of entitlement or that I deserve this. You'd be surprised at the lack of competition between nominees - I think a lot of it's imposed from the outside. Can I have my champagne now?

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

I'm easy to hate. I get it.

I enjoy being recognized whatever environment I'm in.

When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.

If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

You are the only person here who has a right to say: "I told you so.

Appreciate me for what I am doing.

There are some people who feel that they deserve a particular award or recognition, but I don't fall in that category.

Don't talk to me about how I haven't done anything to prove myself. I'm not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly not true.

I don't need people shouting at me to tell me what I did wrong.

What I really want, and what I never get - is to be appreciated.

The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

I respect you more than anyone. But right now I’m wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn’t make your decision.

We thirst for approbation, yet cannot forgive the approver.

You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!