Applause Quotes

Applause waits on success.
Benjamin Franklin

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
Judy Garland

Love, Silence, Words

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
Bob Dylan

Good, Sleep, Eat

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
Barack Obama

Work, Put, Said

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

Love, Nature, Women

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Dale Carnegie

Happiness, Person, Another

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

End, Minds, Weak

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot

Wisdom, Laughter, Half

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.
Phyllis Diller

End, Bad, Matter

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.
Kin Hubbard

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope

Give, Sit, Laws

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
Martin Yan

Happiness, Nothing, Done

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
William Hazlitt

Love, Fear, Through

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.
Gustav Mahler

Life, Failure, Working

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.
Baltasar Gracian

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
Ted Allen

Life, Nothing, Wrong

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
William Cowper

Heart, Against, Sweet

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

Old, Makes, Year

Evil report carries further than any applause.
Baltasar Gracian

Evil, Carries, Further

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

Artist, Storms, Glorious

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

Act, Wants, Share

The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
James Otis

Life, Health, Sacrifice

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Means, Stand, Spirit

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
Barbra Streisand

Money, Mean, Give

For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
Olivia Munn

Basketball, Give, Said

I need the applause.
Jerry Lewis

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.
Andrew Cuomo

Although I'm not shy when I'm singing, I am whenever I hear applause. I don't know if you've noticed, but I giggle a lot on-stage. That's shyness. And the stage manager is always telling me to take a longer bow whenever I come off-stage. I still haven't learnt to do that properly. I see other artistes milking the applause, but I can't quite do it.
Katherine Jenkins

Quite, Hear, Singing

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

Love, Live, Giving

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