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They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis, a sheep.
I want to tank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Applause is the spur of noble minds; the end and aim of weak ones.
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.
When the million applaud you, seriously ask what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good!.
Applause waits on success. The fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats on the stream, glide with the current still, and follow fortune.
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the Virtuous.
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
O popular applause! What heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms!
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follows them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it,.
Man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last interface with the first it should be entirely neglected. But if not, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see its own approbation seconded by the applause of the public.
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.
You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior, to them.
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not to have his work despised in his presence. Now god is present everywhere, and every person is his work.
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.
We should allow other’s excellencies, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Plutarch (46-120) Greek essayist, biographer.
I want to tank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
Henry Kissinger (b.1923) American advisor on international affairs.
Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) Lord Preotector of England.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher.
Applause is the spur of noble minds; the end and aim of weak ones.
Colton.
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.
Whately.
When the million applaud you, seriously ask what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good!.
Colton.
Applause waits on success. The fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats on the stream, glide with the current still, and follow fortune.
Franklin.
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the Virtuous.
Bacon.
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
H.More.
O popular applause! What heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms!
Cowper.
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follows them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it,.
Colton.
Man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and next to escape the censures of the world. If the last interface with the first it should be entirely neglected. But if not, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see its own approbation seconded by the applause of the public.
Addison.
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
Thackeray.
To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.
Mad Neckar.
You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior, to them.
Greville.
We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not to have his work despised in his presence. Now god is present everywhere, and every person is his work.
De Sales.
Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.
Cotton.
We should allow other’s excellencies, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.
Barrow.
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.
Tryon Edwards.
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.
Carlyle.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.
Joubert.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
George Eliot.
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