Quotes About Recognition

You want an Open title by your name. To finally get it, even though it's a Senior Open, I still regard it as a very high honor.

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama.

I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them.

Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like [prizes or honors].

Being famous without honor is a thing of no worth.

To be dignified and distinguished give honor and dignity to others.

It was amazing for me to even perform at the Grammys, but to do so alongside Annie Lennox was a truly incredible honor.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.

The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.

I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.

I've photographed just about everyone in the world. But what I hope to do is photograph people of accomplishment, not celebrity, and help define the difference once again.

I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.

I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we've passed the audition.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.