Appreciation Quotes

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", Decemb...

This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds - the most beautiful senses, the most ...

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almo...

Indeed, I would feel that an appreciation of the arts in a conscious, disciplined way might help one...

The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of B...

... he will seek vainly to the right and to the left and in the newspapers for a guarantee that he h...

The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to apprecia...

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an ...

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versati...

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worshi...

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized mod...

Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appre...

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. ...

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's ...

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a t...

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

He cannot endure Rachel, because he knows she has a proper appreciation of him.

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someo...

Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and th...

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but va...

As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us...

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the inc...

If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some apprec...

We don't value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own...

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise...

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched ...

I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we've managed to amass o...

Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum.

A man has only one escape from his old self — to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's ...

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

Appreciation is a great virtue, and if husbands and wives expressed it more frequently in our homes,...

I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appre...

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly...

After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciat...

The older I get, the more I seem to be able to appreciate my "neighbor" (whomever I happen to be wit...

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is ...

You never fully appreciate what you had until you don’t have it anymore

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to ...

There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and no...

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, ...

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too muc...

Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspi...

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect fo...

The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in th...

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of ...

She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying t...

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter word...

In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, ...

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to...

Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.

Every one of my fans is so special to me

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save...

The biggest spur to my interest in art came when I played van Gogh in the biographical film Lust For...

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into half halves - to wear a grave face on Sun...

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that...

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to ta...

I admire Kings of Leon. I think their records are amazing. Just from hanging out with them, I can sa...

With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have,...

Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pai...

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the co...

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known o...

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known o...

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develo...