Unappreciated Efforts Quotes

To keep you is no benefit, to destroy you is no loss

Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown daughters, mixed with the sense of responsibility for their well-being, can be overwhelming, matched only by the hurt they feel when their attempts to help or just stay connected are rebuffed or even excoriated as criticism or devilish interference.

Basically, nice guys can finish last.

We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.

I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

When I lost my first record deal, my wife and kids and I lost - I wouldn't say friends, but - we lost a lot people around us. They just vanished! They were nowhere to be found. I couldn't get a break, and I couldn't get people to even respond to my emails about songs, no matter how good something was.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

I get criticized for anything I do.

I always feel over-appreciated but underestimated.

Why aren't you more grateful when I prove how wrong you've been?

Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing.

I've got a good record, but maybe, for whatever reason, it's not built up by people. I wouldn't say I'm hard done by. But it's true that I sometimes don't get the praise.

what i really want - and what i never get - is to be appreciated. do you know what it’s like to work so hard to make sure everyone’s happy, and to have not a single person recognize it

Let no good deed go unpunished!

All of the stunt men - these are the unsung heroes. They really are. Nobody is giving them any credibility. They're risking their necks.

There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.

The best part about my job is that I'm pampered and always treated like a Barbie doll on the sets. But the worst part is that I have to work daily without many breaks.

I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.

The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

My worst job would have to be waiting tables at a restaurant in N.Y. My boss was evil.