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Quotes About Honors

ANTIGONE: Nevertheless, there are honors due all the dead. CREON: But not the same for the wicked as for the just. ANTIGONE: Ah Creon, Which of us can say what the gods hold wicked? CREON: An enemy is an enemy, even dead. ANTIGONE: It is may nature to join in love, not hate.
~ Sophocles
I've won some pretty cool things in my life and I have a lot of great titles.
~ Heather O'Reilly
The faith that honors Christ is the faith that sees and savors his glory in all his works, especially the gospel.
~ John Piper
Bach was quarrelsome, litigious, self-serving, greedy for titles and honors, etc. So what! A musicologist listing the cantatas whose theme is death has remarked that no mortal ever had such a nostalgia for it. Which is all that counts. The rest has to do with biography.
~ Emil M. Cioran
To beat a retreat with the honors of war has always been the triumph of the ablest generals.
~ balzac honore de xviii
However popular an artiste may be, awards were reassuring.
~ Rekha
Even a poor man can receive honors.
~ Sophocles
The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.
~ Gloria Stuart
I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.
~ Jessye Norman
It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
~ Victoria Pendleton
I have received many awards, love, and recognition.
~ Asha Bhosle
I was very fortunate in all of my career in television to have a lot of things that received a lot of awards recognition.
~ John Wells
Something happens when you become an elder rock & roller and you're still functioning. People start to give you awards and recognize achievements. It's the life achievement period of your career.
~ Geddy Lee
To me, I feel like your accomplishments have been recognized when you make the cover of a videogame.
~ Alexander Ovechkin
I have records in gold, in platinum, I have two Oscars, I have Grammys and so on.
~ Celine Dion
I have won the Champions League, won the FIFA Club World Cup, the FA Cup, the Italian Super Cup, the Spanish league twice, nine trophies, all the trophies you can win at club level.
~ Rafael Benitez
Till 2010, there was one national award for Best Music Direction. I have received it thrice - for 'Sagara Sangamam,' 'Sindhu Bhairavi,' and 'Rudraveena.'
~ Ilaiyaraaja
I got rushing titles. I got Pro Bowls.
~ LeSean McCoy
Winning titles plays a big role in the Ballon d'Or race.
~ Neymar
Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors.
~ Nell Scovell
For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.
~ Lata Mangeshkar
I've been nominated for 12 Emmys, and we won - for 'Top Chef' - the only time I didn't go.
~ Andy Cohen
My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and — oh, yeah — head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time.
~ Rick Riordan
She was troubled, and said that these honors were not meet for one of her lowly birth and station, and by their kind grace she would remain simple Joan of Arc, nothing more -- and so be called. Nothing more! As if there could be anything more, anything higher, anything greater. My Lady Du Lis -- why, it was tinsel, petty, perishable. But, JOAN OF ARC! The mere sound of it sets one's pulses leaping.
~ Mark Twain