Appreciation Quotes

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. (John F. Kennedy)
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! ... Current appreciation of my work is a bit "highbrow", I've always considered myself a popular artist. View quote
Maxfield Parrish
Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. View quote
Richard Owen
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. View quote
Amelia Earhart
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. View quote
Art Garfunkel
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead. View quote
Igor Stravinsky
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. View quote
Walt Disney
As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back. View quote
Maurice Gibb
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts. View quote
Alan Cohen
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. (Voltaire)
To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. View quote
Martha Beck
When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity. View quote
Martha Beck
I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends. View quote
Ivanka Trump
Surely no issue unites us more than our appreciation for our military personnel who are bringing aid to devastated countries, defending us against terrorism, and fighting to make a free election possible in Iraq. View quote
Christine Gregoire
There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back. View quote
Hunter Tylo
By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools. View quote
Michael N. Castle
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. View quote
Paul D. Boyer
The president, comparing him to a kid in the back of a classroom, I think, is very indicative of the president's lack of appreciation of who Vladimir Putin is. He's an old KGB colonel that has no illusions about our relationship, does not care about a relationship with the United States, continues to oppress his people, continues to act in an autocratic fashion. (John McCain)
Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
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. View quote
Fred Rogers
Before attempting to create something new, it is vital to have a good appreciation of everything that already exists in this field. View quote
Mikhail Kalashnikov
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray