Undeserved Recognition Quotes

It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.

The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

I haven't got the credit I deserved sometimes, and some of it's my fault.

Sure, I'd love to be an all-star - without going. If that's possible.

I work hard, but my modeling career gives my views undeserved attention.

It can be disheartening to see acts that don't necessarily have any input on their own material to do so well in the charts.

Just being famous feels cheap to me.

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

Bert Blyleven certainly was a starting pitcher that had tremendous success in the big leagues. Jimmy Rice, this guy if you had to face him, I tell you what he'd get your attention cause he was a great... great player. I think those guys deserve some recognition, but it didn't happen for them. For whatever reason, I really can't answer that.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

People automatically assume that if I get anywhere it's because of my association with X, Y or Z, or because I'm pretty.

It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.

I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.

No no no! Don't clap! No no no, you make me seem like I'm like a prophet or something and I'm so not!

I don't like being a celebrity, really... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.

I get a lot of credit I don't deserve.

Titles are sometimes overrated.

In those stupid online polls to find the best sitcom ever, 'Father Ted' never gets the credit it deserves.

There are guys that just entered the UFC and people already talk about fighting for the belt. Guys that have one fight there and say call a jiu-jitsu phenom. They haven't done anything in the UFC yet to deserve all that attention.