Quotes About Recognition

It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.

As for being much known by sight, and pointed out, I cannot comprehend the honor that lies withal; whatsoever it be, every mountebank has it more than the best doctor.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

In accepting the Gift you Honor the Giver

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

I want my career to be judged by what I did on the field. I appreciate the honors.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.

It's a great honor... and it's an honor to be with her majesty, obviously... I'm very honored to be given this honor. (upon receiving the OBE)