Top 100 Applaud Quotes
#1. Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.
Emanuel Ax
#2. A mass of ignorant, culturally degraded citizens easily becomes an immense drag on the system. They become easy prey to demagogues and applaud every attempt to undermine the foundations of that "natural liberty" which they have enjoyed in the first place.
Arthur Herman
#3. SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one single question measures any bit of knowledge that anyone might actually need in the real world. We should applaud kids for getting lower scores.
Dave Barry
#4. Do you really love me? means, Will you accept me in process? Will you embrace what is different about me and applaud my efforts to become? Can I just be human
strong an vibrant some days, weak and frail on others? ... Will you love me even when I disappoint you? ...
Angela Thomas
#5. I don't want to be in competition with anyone. I'm friends with women I work with and I applaud any success they have in their careers. And I'm not just saying that because it sounds good, I genuinely want people to do well and have success.
Charissa Thompson
#6. The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
Horace
#7. Step out of your comfort zone, and then applaud yourself for your bravery.
Caroline A. Shearer
#8. At the end of every stage performance, the audience all applaud me for doing my job, but I have friends who work in offices who don't get that.
Kenneth Branagh
#9. In a sane world, we would be heroes. Teachers would applaud as we walked into the school. There is the smart one, the one who wants to be a writer. And there is the runner.
Walter Dean Myers
#10. In many times, after creating a piece of work I want to stand up and applaud.
Shawn Lukas
#11. Authenticity isn't just something to say to make people applaud; it is the life you have done your best to live.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#12. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud." "So life became a work of art," I marveled.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
Edmund Burke
#14. Applaud to those who withstand the shards of compromise. May laurel leaves sit on your head, and life-long pride be yours for the taking.
Popo Santos
#15. And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#16. To be them would be marvelous, but she was condemned to be herself and could only in this silent enthusiastic way, sitting outside in a garden, applaud the society of humanity from which she was excluded.
Virginia Woolf
#17. When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down.
Frederick Lenz
#18. I had to remind Gary Kristen often that he was in the covers to field against Sachin not to applaud him
Hansie Cronje
#19. pleased to observe, that you submit to reason and necessity without indulging useless complaint. I applaud this conduct exceedingly, the more, perhaps, since it discovers a strength of mind seldom observable in your sex.
Eliza Parsons
#21. You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#22. I have a generally liberal audience, but they will applaud when I nail a liberal lion.
Stephen Colbert
#23. We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.
William Hazlitt
#24. Make a better mousetrap and the world will know it; it can measure and applaud your skill. Make a better man and the world will say he did it himself.
Denham Sutcliffe
#25. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud.
Michael Crichton
#27. have no judgment for Wendells; in fact, I applaud their stamina and ability to provide excellent service to so many women. It seems like a very efficient and generous use of resources.
Penny Reid
#28. I aint gotta get a plaque, I aint gotta get awards I just walk up out the door, all the girls will applaud
Nicki Minaj
#29. It was a machine that required constant feeding- Henry hated the machine, and he hated himself for wanting the sort of admiration it promised, as if he had no worth unless someone was there to applaud it
Libba Bray
#30. Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage."
"Courage?" he asked with confusion.
"Hmm." She headed for the door to the hall, swinging her purse gaily as she went. "Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet.
Lynsay Sands
#31. I applaud the American Cancer Society for all they do to eradicate smoking. Their local, state and national efforts help to discourage young people from taking up this deadly habit and the resources they provide have helped numerous smokers quit.
Allyson Schwartz
#32. Yet, advice on what we can do is usually futile - for we will do nothing except applaud the speaker, accept those ideas of his we already agree with, and reject those ideas that run counter to our prejudices.
Sydney J. Harris
#33. Wait! Don't applaud my cheapness! I've got other crap I need help with!
Craig Ferguson
#34. Still, I also know that most people, including me, tend to applaud the wrong things: the showy, dramatic record-setting sprint rather than the years of dogged preparation or the unwavering grace displayed during a string of losses.
Chris Hadfield
#35. The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship.
George Washington
#36. You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.
Miriam Makeba
#37. Italian men are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#38. You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, ackowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.
Jim Stovall
#39. Reality shows have a lot to answer for. They applaud mediocrity.
Suzi Quatro
#40. I applaud anyone who thinks I'm good-looking and invite them into my world
Tom DeLonge
#41. Yet, should our feeble efforts nought avail, Should, after all, our best endeavours fail; Still, let some mercy in your bosoms live, And, if you can't applaud, at least forgive.
George Gordon Byron
#42. If people like you, they will like your magic. If you are an artist at what you do, they will sing your praises and applaud your artistry.
Paul LePaul
#43. When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.
Denis Waitley
#44. A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct
Aldo Leopold
#45. Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
William O. Douglas
#46. While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
Ed Pastor
#47. We journey towards a home that does not halo our head with a special sun.
Mythical women applaud us. A sea for us, a sea against us.
Mahmoud Darwish
#48. As long as you've got serious investors who wish to put money into football, I applaud. It proves that football is attractive. What upsets me, what I find scandalous, is when clubs accept fools.
Sepp Blatter
#49. The ignorant pronounce it Frood
To cavil or applaud
The well-informed pronounce it Froyd
But I pronounce it Fraud.
G.K. Chesterton
#50. We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.
Emanuel Ax
#51. The U.S. views Morocco as an important friend, and we applaud your political and economic reforms that culminated with the recent parliamentary elections that were widely reported to have been conducted in a fair and open manner.
Donald Evans
#52. I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.
Tamara Ecclestone
#53. When your crowd of attendants so loudly applaud you, Pomponius, it is not you, but your banquet, that is eloquent.
Martial
#54. Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?
Marlon Brando
#55. Mortal, yours is a surpassing conceit ... which I cannot but applaud.
Steven Erikson
#56. I'm not a marijuana user, so I always feel kind of fraudulent. I applaud this, I do recreational drugs, but marijuana's never one of those. People think because I talk about drugs, that I smoke pot. But I don't.
Doug Stanhope
#57. But I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. I can't do it, but I can applaud it in others. "Well," I said. "There are definitely
Gillian Flynn
#58. Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?
Gloria Estefan
#59. To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.
Matthew Arnold
#60. People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
Horace
#61. I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.
Cate Blanchett
#62. The ass of a man is the piston that drives the world, and you have a good one. In my prime, I would have corked it with my thumb and then eaten you alive. Preferably by the pool of Le Meridien in Monte Carlo, with an admiring audience to applaud my frontside and backside efforts.
Stephen King
#63. When 20,000 people applaud you as you walk out to do your job, it should be an inspiration.
Jim Brosnan
#64. The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.
Aries Spears
#65. If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.
Mark W. Boyer
#66. Woman, your heart is a mapless maze. Could I bottle confusion and drink it a thousand years, I could not confound myself so much as you do between waking and breakfast. You are grown so devious that serpents would applaud your passage, would the gods but give them hands.
Scott Lynch
#67. Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people
people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.
Jack Canfield
#68. In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing your own work, what need have you to reply to any party?
Swami Vivekananda
#69. Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home Can be contented to applaud myself, ... with joy To see how plump my bags are and my barns.
Ben Jonson
#70. Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you'll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you'll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.
Charles Spurgeon
#72. Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.
(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
[Said on his deathbed]
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#73. Regardless of a patient's true motives to get out of bed, I always applaud on the inside. That's what physical therapy is all about. To get them out of bed. To coax them down to the rehab gym.
Adele Levine
#74. With massive doses of eye-popping special effects I applaud the visual achievements in 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.'
Leonard Maltin
#75. Bono actually gets a lot of substantial work done. The guy really does put a lot of things together and, while I'm not a fan of his music, I greatly applaud his humanitarian efforts.
Henry Rollins
#76. Bands that have positive lyrics that give people hope, I applaud them, you know I think we need to see more bands come out like that. I think it is great.
Michael Sweet
#77. We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let others applaud our good deeds.
Pope Clement I
#78. I much applaud thy judgement; thou art well-read in a fellow.
And 'tis the deepest art to study man.
Thomas Middleton
#79. I have been like a mediocre concert pianist playing in front of a tone-deaf family, who applaud out of duty rather than for accomplishment.
Chris Murray
#80. In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries.
Robertson Davies
#81. Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.
Aesop
#82. I love Major League Soccer, covered the first game in 1996 in a funky stadium in San Jose, and I applaud just about every move that its commissioners, Garber and Doug Logan, have made.
George Vecsey
#83. When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
#84. She hit him. Hard. Right in the face ...
"Holy shit," said Quinn. "Would it be wrong if I applaud?
Brigid Kemmerer
#85. And Avery looks up at just that moment and sees the blue-haired boy glancing his way.
Some of us applaud. Others look away, because it hurts too much.
David Levithan
#86. Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
Ernest Istook
#87. Be you and embrace your differences as things that make you unique and special. "Different" shouldn't be considered confusing, negative, or something that divides us. It should be a quality we applaud and admire within ourselves and others.
Lily Collins
#88. A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.
Hannah More
#89. But this wasn't a movie. In life, we didn't get to have credits roll to tell us when we'd come to the end of our epiphany arc. To know when to applaud. In life, there were no credits, no sound tracks. In life, things often didn't work out.
Kim Culbertson
#90. I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your loss, many will applaud the effort. And who knows? Others may be inspired to pick up their broken instruments, their broken lives, and begin again.
Steve Goodier
#91. The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
Emile Zola
#93. I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
BeBe Winans
#94. I never read my reviews ... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
Pat Conroy
#95. Fill your life with people who applaud your positive thoughts, feelings, and actions; who encourage you toward more and better; who know how to praise the good and beautiful.
Peter McWilliams
#96. The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
William Godwin
#97. At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.
Jim Rohn
#98. We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
Willard Van Orman Quine
#99. The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.
Barry Ritholtz
#100. I'm for a high libido president! I applaud him if he gets up and picks up women.
Camille Paglia
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