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Quotes About Honor

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Being nominated is the win. For me, being nominated is winning. It's just unbelievable.
~ Martha Plimpton
Winning an Olympic gold medal is like nothing else.
~ Rebecca Lobo
If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.
~ Chamillionaire
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
~ Julius Erving
I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with.
~ Kim Collins
I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
~ Elia Kazan
Winning 'Best Vlogger of 2013' from MTV is a really wonderful honor, and I wanted to thank all of you out there that used your fingers and clicked a button and made this happen, and to all of you that accidentally clicked my name and you were trying to click Jack and Finn, I'm sorry.
~ Grace Helbig
I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.
~ Sheldon Lee Glashow
I want to recognize and thank all Guard members for their service. It means so much to our state and our country.
~ Matt Mead
I've seen myself on those lists of the 100 best guitarists, and if they think that I'm that good, thank them. Thank God for them. But I don't think so.
~ B. B. King
You don't have doubts when you get offered 'Question Time.' You think, thank you very much.
~ Fiona Bruce
What I really appreciate is the people who come up and say, 'Thank you for representing our country.'
~ Alex Morgan
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
~ Karen Duffy
I would take any opportunity to tell service members, 'Thank you.'
~ Kyle Carpenter
I'm actual thankful for the amount of responsibility that has been handed to me. I feel very honored.
~ Samira Wiley
I am very thankful to Washington, D.C. for their loyalty and support.
~ Raheem DeVaughn
Who wouldn't be thankful for another medal?
~ Tori Bowie
There's some men and women out there that are doing their job the right way. They're protecting and serving complete strangers in their communities the right way. And it's a thankless job. Obviously, there's a lot of information out on cops not doing their jobs correctly, but the ones that are should be celebrated.
~ John David Washington
The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.
~ Hank Stram
The freedoms and prosperity we enjoy in America are thanks to the brave men and women who have served in our armed forces.
~ Bill Foster
If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.
~ Barry Larkin
It's an honor to play on the same team as some of the best players in the history of the game.
~ Frances Tiafoe