“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .”
Dale Carnegie
“When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you’re in good shape.”
L. Ron Hubbard
“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.”
Leni Riefenstahl
“He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping”
Oliver Goldsmith
“Who decides when the applause should die down? It seems like it's a group decision; everyone begins to say to themselves at the same time, "Well, okay, that's enough of that."”
George Carlin
“A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Old men need applause too”
Don Everly