Never Appreciated Quotes

#1. Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.

J. Michael Straczynski

#2. Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Asif Ali Zardari

#3. I Stopped Counseling People When I Realized How Much They Never Appreciated It. And If They Did Appreciate It, I Never Knew About It.

Chris Mentillo

#4. I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

Candice Bergen

#5. Warriors are never appreciated in peacetime except by those they saved during the war.

Evan Currie

#6. Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#7. Survival and sexuality were linked in ways I'd never appreciated until now. He

Deborah Harkness

#8. To be allowed to come back to WWE is the greatest gift that's ever been given to me. Back in the day, I never appreciated what WWE had given me, because I was in too much disarray and too confused about my own life. I let opportunities foolishly slip through my hands.

Jake Roberts

#9. To have never experienced pain is to have never appreciated pleasure. To have never been knocked down is to have never felt the pride of getting back up.

William Panzarella

#10. Artists are never appreciated at lunchtime," Kelly mumbled as she stuffed her camera into her pocket.

Alex Gino

#11. She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty and not understanding how standards of health were so much more important.

Jo Walton

#12. Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?

J.K. Rowling

#13. I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

Jose Saramago

#14. I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

Mamie Van Doren

#15. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone ... or at least, he would be gone from it.

Anonymous

#16. Leaders are never appreciated or needed until you don't have them,

Matt Millen

#17. The fact that I'm getting appreciated and praised alone is a crazy moment because I never thought it would happen.

Alessia Cara

#18. I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.

Ingmar Bergman

#19. I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.

Ira Glass

#20. When I'm dead and no longer the threat. My comfort is that all the great artists since the beginning of time have always been completely misunderstood and never fully appreciated until they were dead.

Madonna Ciccone

#21. I have learnt that once one lets go of all expectations, one can never be disappointed; everything then that comes one's way, will be an appreciated blessing.

Aisha Mirza

#22. Whether the Eisenhower administration has underestimated the American people's interest in space exploration or Truman never full appreciated MacArthur, the Soviet Union's Sputnik program has created a public spectacle that even Disney and von Braun might envy.

Ken Hollings

#23. I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

Talib Kweli

#24. Years were wasted trying to make him feel better. I never stopped to see if I felt appreciated.

Darian Wilk

#25. This is an aspect of crime stories I never fully appreciated until I became one: it is so ruinously expensive to mount a defense that, innocent or guilty, the accusation is itself a devastating punishment. Every defendant pays a price.

William Landay

#26. 'The White Album' is a record I can go back to time and time again, and always find something different that I never noticed or appreciated before.

Mark Hoppus

#27. What i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it's like to work so hard to make sure everyone's happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

David Levithan

#28. There has never been a painting that was more beautiful than nature. The model does not unfold herself to you, you must rise to her. She should be the inspiration for your painting. No man has ever over-appreciated a human being.

Robert Henri

#29. Never forget your manners. They go a long way in both your business and personal life. If you look and act like you are making an effort, it will be appreciated.

Matt Bomer

#30. Some people lose the ones they love, and then realize they never truly appreciated what they had.

Jason Pellegrini

#31. The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

Gail Sheehy

#32. It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.

D.E. Stevenson

#33. I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

Dan Harmon

#34. Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina,

Maria Tallchief

#35. Never underestimate your acts of kindness and how much you are appreciated and loved!

Leanne Wood

#36. In theory momentos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.

Joan Didion

#37. Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.

Mike Piazza

#38. My whole thing was this was to immortalize my family's name. To get the people who never would have appreciated him to appreciate him, there's nothing a son could want more.

O'Shea Jackson Jr.

#39. Kindness that turns to bitterness when it is not appreciated was never kindness at all.

Vironika Tugaleva

#40. There are many of the sisters whose labors are not known beyond their own dwellings, and perhaps not appreciated there. But what difference does that make? If your labors are acceptable to God, however simple the duties, if faithfully performed, you should never be discouraged.

Eliza R. Snow

#41. Let today be the day you embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those living in the dark. Light their path so the road traveled will be seen more clearly. You never know how much a simple act of kindness is appreciated if you never try. Be that candle for someone today and shine bright.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#42. 'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.

Rick Astley

#43. I've never yet met a person who didn't want to be appreciated ...

Mary Kay Ash

#44. I don't want to be thin or conventionally beautiful or straight or brilliant. No, what I really want - and what I never get - is to be appreciated.

John Green

#45. Difference of opinion has never been sufficiently appreciated. It is the unexpected, the unknowable, the divine irrationality of life that saves us.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

#46. Nanny Ogg appreciated fine wine in her very own way. It would never have occurred to Casanunda that anyone would top up white wine with port merely because she'd reached the end of the bottle.

Terry Pratchett

#47. After that, the Jinni was rarely without tobacco and rolling papers. He appreciated the taste of the tobacco, and the warmth of the smoke in his body. But to the puzzlement of all who stopped him on the street to ask, he never carried matches.

Helene Wecker

#48. The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Robert Kiyosaki

#49. Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Demi Lovato

#50. I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.

Saul Leiter

#51. I'm quite proud of my piano playing. Robin's never played a note on the piano at our recording sessions. I just wish I could be appreciated musically now.

Maurice Gibb

#52. At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as an oddball. But that was his point.

John Astin

#53. Shane never knew how to address her friends' parents. She wanted to call her Mrs. Eliot's Mom, but knew that the cutesiness would not be appreciated. "Mrs. Kaspar" sounded too like a phone solicitor, which would not do after having kissed the circumference of her son's neck.

Thomm Quackenbush

#54. You are never too old for applause. What's satisfying is that I'm being appreciated for what I was trained for.

Anupam Kher

#55. I never really had that father figure to look up to. I think that's the reason I'm so ambitious. I felt like I wasn't appreciated as a child so I wanted to prove my worth as an adult, as an actor.

Jesse Metcalfe

#56. Contrast J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. The author adopts the childish view of adults as inhumanly powerful and uncomprehending, and never goes beyond it; and so his novel, published for adults, is better appreciated by ten-year-olds. The

Ursula K. Le Guin

#57. She'd never mastered the talent for apologizing, but she appreciated it in other people.

Terry Pratchett

#58. Why being involved in social media has had such a tremendous impact on me, is deeply connecting me with fans in ways that I never had before. I was connected with fans and I always appreciated the relationship I had with fans, but, through social media, it allowed a deeper connection.

Dwayne Johnson

#59. Birth, like love, is an energy and a process, happening within a relationship. Both unfold with their own timing, with a uniqueness that can never be anticipated, with a power that can never be controlled, but with an exquisite mystery to be appreciated.

Elizabeth Noble

#60. Imagine that half the world is hidden from you. Half of the person sitting across from you has never been appreciated, half of the garden has never been seen or smelled, half of your own life has never been truly witnessed and appraised.

Arthur Zajonc

#61. In any case it pleased him to imagine himself secretly in league with secret beings who appreciated the finer things in life, like the way the sunlight this afternoon broke itself into pieces in the dark waters of the creek, never or be reassembled.

Douglas Watson

#62. ...never fully appreciated her before," he told us. "She's strong, like one of these women detectives in books, but kind and compassionate--

Jacqueline Girdner

#63. He called for a remount, and changed horses while I gently swelled with pride. I had never craved officer rank, particularly, but it was something to be rewarded for my efforts, and to know I still basked in the general's favour.

David Pilling

#64. I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.

Paul Weller

#65. The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before,

Carl Sagan

#66. I appreciated Aaliyah's artistry. We'll never have another like her.

Zoya