External Praise Quotes

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

Anytime that another artist or a critic that is well-respected says something nice about you, you're always thankful and hope that you can live up to that.

Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

People who don't know you, you don't know their motives. They smile at you all day, "Oh, that's great. You've done it again! You're the greatest!" And that's not good for an artist.

I don't want awards. I am not saying this like it's a case of sour grapes. It isn't. I have been to a couple of award functions, and I soon realised that it doesn't give me the kick that it does to others.

It's not that I need everybody to be patting me on the back.

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

Mass adulation from the multitudes does not penetrate your soul or your core.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.