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
- Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.--Voltaire
- Appreciation, not possession, makes a thing ours.--Marty Rubin
- 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
- The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.--Goethe
- 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
- God will one day hold us accountable for all the things he created for us to enjoy, but we refused to do.–-Rabbinic Saying
- Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.--Latin proverb
- I believe that appreciation is a holy thing – that when we look for what’s best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we’re doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we’re participating in something sacred.--Fred Rogers
- 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")
- Mankind will not perish for want of information, but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.--Abraham Heschel
- 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
- Spend time to remember and appreciate the people in your life who, despite it all, kept you hopeful as you encountered situations of evil, suffering, and sadness.--Joe McHugh (Startled by God: Wisdom from Unexpected Place)
- 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
- The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.--Omar Khayyam
- 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
- You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.--Dale Carnegie
- You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.--Amit Kalantri (Wealth of Words)
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