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.

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

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

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.

Applause waits on success.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear not through love.

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.

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.

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