Quotes About Honors

I call myself the hardware shelf. There's a lot of awards and honors there. And I have earned that. I didn't ask for it, I didn't beg for it, I didn't pay for it. I earned that. People see the accomplishments - but it's good to remind people that so much strife and labor and tears and heartbreak came before that, that it really is earned.

Crowns of flowers and laurels are the inventions of free people.

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors.

At the commencements I attended, graduates were classified by their academic rankings. Outstanding academic performance was noted in the programs and awarded with special honors.

You don't project yourself in the Hall of Fame as a player. It's only during that five-year period where people start asking about it, and it doesn't seem real until it happens.

I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!

Everybody knows Milkha deserves more than a Padma Shri, but it is for others, including the federation, to nominate me to the government for higher awards.

International Amateur Atheletic Federation had selected me in 1985 and 1986 as one of the best eight athletes in the world.

Most of my awards come from foreign festivals!

People who get OBEs are people like firefighters and lifesavers - these are real-life heroes.

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.

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

There were twenty questions, and forty was the top score. I scored a thirty- eight, which means I would be graduating with honors if I majored in being a sociopath.

One of the nicest things about living in America is the fact that sooner or later you are practically bound to get an award of some sort or other.

In Vietnam he earned a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. He was discharged with honors and settled in Florida.

I know something about killing. I don't like killing. And I don't think a state honors life by turning around and sanctioning killing.

Freedom and peace is even sweeter than wealth and honors.

Indeed, the highest honors are those granted by organizations who understand the necessity of providing our nation's children with access to technology in an environment which fosters the type of learning that will lead us into the next century.

Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

When it comes to the awards and everything, and the press, the publicity, this is all icing on the cake to me.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

I'm rather fond of my awards.

I've done the Kennedy Center many times. I've sang for Marian Anderson. I've sang for Marion Williams. I've sang for Lionel Hampton.