Applause Quotes

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.

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by 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.

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

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

I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

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

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

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

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

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

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 always get more applause than votes.

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.

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.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

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

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

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.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

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

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.

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

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

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

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