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

O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.

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

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

With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it.

Fare ye well, and give us your applause.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

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

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

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

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

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.