Pastoral Resources

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.

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.

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.

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

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

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

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.

I always get more applause than votes.

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

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.