Soul of the age,
The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage,
My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
A little further, to make thee a room.
By flatterers besieg'd,
And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd;
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
The applause of list'ning senates to command,
The threats of pain and ruin to despise,
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
And read their history in a nation's eyes.
Napoleon's troops fought in bright fields, where every helmet caught some gleams of glory; but the British soldier conquered under the cool shade of aristocracy. No honours awaited his daring, no despatch gave his name to the applauses of his countrymen; his life of danger and hardship was uncheered by hope, his death unnoticed.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause.
I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.
Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.