Self Applause Quotes

#1. A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.

Tom Morrison

#2. Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet.

Chet Huntley

#3. They said she could not do it. But she didn't listen so when she did it. And when they stood in awe, she did not hear their applause. The only validation she needed came from the voice inside her head. The voice that had always been there saying, "You got this.

Toni Sorenson

#4. Clapping is easily the best example of self-amplification in the world. It sprouts from a single wham to a wave of sound in no time. As soon as someone clapped on hearing Tulsi's name, an avalanche of applause followed.

Pawan Mishra

#5. Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

Samuel Richardson

#6. To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.

William Hazlitt

#7. The applause of the conscience can only bring a marvelous Self-Esteem

Rajasaraswathii

#8. In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.

Anthony De Mello

#9. From self alone expect applause.

Marion LeRoy Burton

#10. Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Carol Channing

#11. Try to exist even under hardest conditions! That is the effort which deserves the applauses most!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Then back to the stage, and the acting. The bright lights, the rehearsed lines. The applause, the falling curtain. Leaving who one was for a brief time, then returning. But the self that one returned to was never exactly the same as the self that one had left behind.

Haruki Murakami

#13. Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
from none but self expect applause.
He noblest lives and noblest dies
who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Richard Francis Burton

#14. It matters not if the world has heard or approves or understands...the only applause we're meant to seek is that of nail-scarred hands.

B.J. Hoff

#15. I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. It's like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar.

Fannie Flagg

#16. There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats ...

Ouida

#17. We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Steven Pressfield

#18. When you have done something that took courage and someone wants to share the joy you created for them by your actions, please give yourself permission to take the applause in whatever form it appears.

Amy Lisewski

#19. Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

Amit Kalantri

#20. I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, 'I could get used to this.' And I just never stopped.

Dallas Roberts