Appreciation
- Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.--Susan Taylor
- The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.--G. K. Chesterton (Autobiography)
- Appreciate what you have, accept the blessings waiting for you to need them, and above all - realize that Source from which it all comes.--Michael Rawls
- Appreciation can make a day--even change a life, Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.--Margaret Cousins
- A basic rule for managers is "Pass the pride down." People like to create when they can earn recognition for their ideas. When a good idea surfaces, the creator's immediate superiors should show prompt appreciation.--James L. Hayes
- Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.--Henry Clay
- Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.--Virginia Satir
- I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.--Charles Schwab
- I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation.--A. C. Benson
- I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.--Elbert Hubbard
- Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.--Sophocles (Ajax)
- It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out us out of touch with life; too much free time and dull the edge of the soul. We need sometimes to come very near the bone so tha we can taste the marrow of life, rather than its superfluities.--Joan Chittister
- Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had.--Susan L. Lenzkes
- Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.--Sydney J. Harris
- Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.--Abraham Joshua Heschel
- A little praise goes a great ways.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Encyclopedia")
- Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.--Dale Dauten
- Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.--Bill Walsh ("The Case for Kudos" Forbes ASAP, 10/10/1954)
- One appreciates that daily life is really good when one wakes from a horrible dream, or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?--William Lyon Phelps
- One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are...--Gail Godwin
- Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.--Samuel Johnson (The Rambler, June 6, 1751)
- Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.--Joseph Pulitzer
- The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great.--G. K. Chesterton
- Respect ... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.--Annie Gottlieb
- There cannot be a sense of abundance or the experience of prosperity without appreciation. You cannot find beauty unless you appreciate beauty. You cannot find friendship unless you appreciate others. You cannot find love unless you appreciate loving and being loved. If you wish abundance, appreciate life.--William R. Miller
- You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.--O. Henry
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