Appreciation quotes and words of wisdom

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
Francois Voltaire


"Appreciation is the lubricant of life."
Gerald Horton Bath


"Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another."
Tryon Edwards


"Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued."
Jean de La Bruyére


"I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler"s truest and best reward."
William Dean Howells


"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it."
William Makepeace Thackeray


"No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters."
George Eliot


"The deepest craving in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
William James


"To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge."
Phillips Brooks


Interesting Quotes

Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.Walter Anderson

But did thee feel the earth move?Ernest Hemingway - US author & journalist (1899 - 1961)