Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

Life is precious.

What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, ‚Of course they like it. They should like it.‘

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

A large majority of Americans believe that the U.N., not the U.S., should take the lead in working with Iraqis to transfer authentic sovereignty as well as in economic reconstruction and maintaining civic order.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

A president can ask for reconciliation in the racial conflict that divides Americans. But reconciliation comes only from the hearts of people.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

There is so much that people take for granted.

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.