Quotes About Honors

I always felt that I was never acknowledged for a lot of things - award shows, all of that.

All man's honors are small beside the greatest prize to which he may and must aspire--the finding of his soul, his spirit, his divine strength and worth--the knowledge that he can and must live in freedom and dignity--the final realization that life is not a daily dying, not a pointless end, not ashes-to-ashes and dust-to-dust, but a soaring and blinding gift snatched from eternity.

All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

I have never won a single award - National or Filmfare - and I just hope they don't give me a Lifetime Achievement Award because I won't accept it.

It's a big accomplishment to be among those big names on those all-time lists of great players who played for the Magic.

Young men, God does not show favoritism or respects the honors bestowed by men. He rewards no man's heritage, or wealth, or rank, or position. He does not see with man's eyes. The poorest saint that ever died in a ghetto is nobler in His sight than the richest sinner that ever died in a palace.

I'm grateful for all the breaks and honors and opportunities I've had, but I always believe I won't have it made until the humblest black kid in the most remote backwoods of America has it made.

Pero no hay que olvidar que su riqueza [la de los guerreros] sólo viene después de los honores, como consecuencia de ellos. Se es rico porque se reciben honores, pero no se reciben honores porque se es rico: es absolutamente imposible que un miembro de esta clase dirigente se enriquezca por otros conceptos que no sean los de sus proezas.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

I graduated with honors, which was ridiculous. Charm goes a long way in the liberal arts.

I'm one of the most decorated tag teams ever!

Humility honors God, and God honors humility.

My commitment to the security and future of Israel is based upon basic morality as well as enlightened self-interest. Our role in supporting Israel honors our own heritage.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Note: God came into the world in order to cast down the demons from divine honors. And now man arrogates the same titles to himself, namely, to boast of good and righteousness, which belong to God alone. But this, too, He will at last, at His Second Coming, cast down.]

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years.

I am excited to rise today to support National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day. This celebration honors the husband and wife business owner teams whose work helps drive the economy and fuel job growth.

These honors that you give to me are not for me alone. They are for those who, dying young, now sleep in the earth with their unspoken poems, waiting for the Last Day.

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.