A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Alec Waugh

All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
Emanuel Ax

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
John Updike

And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.
Little Milton

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.
William Feather

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.
Anita Baker

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Dale Carnegie

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
Emanuel Ax

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Alfred Jarry

Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
Lance Morrow

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.
Ivor Novello

But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible.
Jose Marti

Evil report carries further than any applause.
Baltasar Gracian

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.
Rudolf Bing

For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
Randy West

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
Zac Efron

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
Erykah Badu

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Golda Meir