Desire For Recognition Quotes

#1. It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

Francis Fukuyama

#2. The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.

Albert Einstein

#3. Goddard was not personally religious; his most immediate and consistent motivation was a desire for recognition as the founding genius of rocket science.

Kendrick Oliver

#4. To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition

Albert Einstein

#5. She remembered a sudden feeling of anger towards him, as if it were his fault that the sun and breeze did not restore him, and a swift shame in the recognition of her own selfish desire not to have to endure his decline. They

Helen Simonson

#6. The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

Tim Fargo

#7. Beware of those who criticize you when you deserve some praise for an achievement, for it is they who secretly desire to be worshiped.

Suzy Kassem

#8. The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.

R.A. Torrey

#9. Instead of seeking fulfilment in an object, the subject must acknowledge that it can flourish only through another of its kind. It is when two free, equal individuals engage in an act of mutual recognition that desire can transcend itself into something rather more edifying.

Terry Eagleton

#10. Those of us committed to a queer life know that forms of recognition are either precariously conditional, you have to be the right kind of queer by depositing your hope for happiness in the right places (even with perverse desire you can have straight aspirations), or it is simply not given.

Sara Ahmed

#11. If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.

Claud Cockburn

#12. The decision as to whether to risk one's actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one is.

(from The structure of desire and recognition)

Robert B. Brandom

#13. Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

Bruce Lee

#14. They're like 'You're an alcoholic.' I go 'No, I'm not.' and then-apparently that's what alcoholics say too, you know?

Norm MacDonald

#15. On the court, I'm not afraid of anything. I try to have confidence and have a belief in myself.

Stephen Curry

#16. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire.

Thomas Dreier

#17. This is what we don't admit about first kisses: One of the most gratifying things about them is that they are proof, actual proof, that the other person wants to kiss us. We are desirable. We desire. Every kiss that matters contains a recognition at its core.

David Levithan

#18. Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective - life.

Ogwo David Emenike

#19. But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

Christopher Shays

#20. And if the object of one's desire is a relationship with God, his blessing and love, then the struggle cannot fail but ends in that self-giving to God, in recognition of one's own weakness, which is overcome only by giving oneself over into God's merciful hands.

Benedict, Pope XVI

#21. You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#22. A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish.

H. Rider Haggard

#23. Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.

Thomas A Kempis

#24. What earnest worker, with hand and brain for the benefit of his fellowmen, could desire a more pleasing recognition of his usefulness than the monument of a tree, ever growing, ever blooming, and ever bearing wholesome fruit?

Washington Irving

#25. Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that there is not enough, paranoia about the intentions of others, and a desire to control.

Michael Lerner