Quotes about Honors

I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way. Votes: 4

Honors achieved far exceed those that are created. Votes: 3

Honors to me now are not what they once were. Votes: 3

Honors are very fleeting, just as fame is; cherish friendship more. Votes: 3

I know I'll astonish everyone by talking like this, but it's God's truth. Honors have never tempted me and I've never sought them. Votes: 3

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. Votes: 3

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance. Votes: 3

Even a poor man can receive honors. Votes: 2

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. Votes: 2

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. Votes: 2

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. Votes: 2

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. Votes: 2

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven. Votes: 2

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? Votes: 2

Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup. Votes: 2

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Votes: 2

I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years. Votes: 2

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. Votes: 2

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country. Votes: 2

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me. Votes: 2

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. Votes: 2

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency. Votes: 2

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity. Votes: 2

The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors. Votes: 2

Our flag honors those who have fought to protect it, and is a reminder of the sacrifice of our nation's founders and heroes. As the ultimate icon of America's storied history, the Stars and Stripes represents the very best of this nation. Votes: 2

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure. Votes: 2

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom. Votes: 2

Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it. Votes: 2

In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on. Votes: 2

Growing up, I watched softball and U.S.A .softball, and that was my goal of being able to represent my country and wear the red, white, and blue out there, and I think it is one of the highest honors to be able to go out there and compete for your country, and it was something so very special, and it was everything I dreamt of and more. Votes: 2

It is good to preserve the name, wealth, and honors you inherit, but it is better in every way if you yourself create a position and a name. The first requires good sense, but the second demands willpower and great virtue. Votes: 1

Everyone honors the wise. Votes: 0

The game honors toughness Votes: 0

Honor is better than honors. Votes: 0

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal. Votes: 0

A quarrelsome man deserves no honors. Votes: 0

Individual honors come with team success. Votes: 0

IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors. Votes: 0

Man only honors what he conquers or defends. Votes: 0

Bold prayers honor God, and God honors bold prayers. Votes: 0

God honors and blesses people of action beyond expectations. Votes: 0

Faithfulness and character are noble qualities that God honors. Votes: 0

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living. Votes: 0

My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought. Votes: 0

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants. Votes: 0

I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art. Votes: 0

Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience. Votes: 0

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors. Votes: 0

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune. Votes: 0

A nation will prosper to the degree that it honors it's teachers. Votes: 0

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another. Votes: 0

God honors you when you take a stand for what is right. Votes: 0

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing. Votes: 0

People feel that drama is more important. Dramas always earn more honors than comedy. Votes: 0

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.... Votes: 0

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. Votes: 0

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. Votes: 0

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn Votes: 0

A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly. Votes: 0

God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning. Votes: 0

To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors. Votes: 0

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Votes: 0

History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget. Votes: 0

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold. Votes: 0

God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him. Votes: 0

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid. Votes: 0

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors. Votes: 0

The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation. Votes: 0

A woman who walks with God honors Him in the way she manages her home. Votes: 0

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry. Votes: 0

If you are a woman who honors God right where you are, you are in ministry. Votes: 0

America remembers. On this 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the nation honors those who were lost. Votes: 0

Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins. Votes: 0

The sage honors his part of the settlement, but does not exact his due from others. Votes: 0

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. Votes: 0

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low. Votes: 0

Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish! Votes: 0

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem? Votes: 0

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors. Votes: 0

What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others. Votes: 0

Washington honors the Platinum Rule above all: 'Do it unto others before they do it unto you'. Votes: 0

Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid. Votes: 0

I did well in school. I had lots of honors, so I thought I was quite smart. Votes: 0

High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief. Votes: 0

On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars. Votes: 0

This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them. Votes: 0

I want my career to be judged by what I did on the field. I appreciate the honors. Votes: 0

Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father. Votes: 0

For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization. Votes: 0

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors. Votes: 0

It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise. Votes: 0

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today. Votes: 0

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. Votes: 0

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth. Votes: 0

I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama. Votes: 0

What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God. Votes: 0

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given. Votes: 0

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors. Votes: 0

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting. Votes: 0

Even when I was playing, I never thought much about the individual honors. I wanted to go to the Super Bowl. Votes: 0

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside. Votes: 0

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors. Votes: 0

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. Votes: 0

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers. Votes: 0

As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below. Votes: 0

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community. Votes: 0

Yielding your inner life to God will empower you to live the kind of outer life that honors the Lord and blesses others. Votes: 0

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness. Votes: 0

A man who worships in Spirit and Truth no longer honors the Creator because of His works, but praises Him because of Himself. Votes: 0

The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity. Votes: 0

He couldn't understand how he was awarded medals and honors for clubbing and bayoneting people, and be called a barbarian for killing seals. Votes: 0

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget. Votes: 0

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable. It honors the unique minority the majority cannot forget Votes: 0

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ. Votes: 0

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted. Votes: 0

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples. Votes: 0

It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill. Votes: 0

When I accept an apology it means that the part in me that honors our relationship honors the part in you that honors our relationship. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it. Votes: 0

You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life. Votes: 0

Playing the Opry, when I get the opportunity - it's one of the coolest honors for any musician in any genre, but especially for a country musician. Votes: 0

You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them? Votes: 0

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal. Votes: 0

One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him. Votes: 0

Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it. Votes: 0

God honors obedience, and He has distinct plans for us. I think the dreams that God puts in our hearts, we can fulfill. He's equipped us for that. Votes: 0

I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from. Votes: 0

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Votes: 0

Treat all things as if they were loaned to you without any ownership - whether body or soul, sense or strength, external goods or honors, house or hall . . . everything. Votes: 0

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift Votes: 0

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own. Votes: 0

There you see Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson closing a deal with [Vladimir] Putin in 2011. Two years later, he received one of Russia's highest civilian honors, the Order of Friendship. Votes: 0

God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross. Votes: 0

This is one of the stout-hearted old warriors: he is angry with civilization because he supposes that its aim is to make all goodthings--honors, treasures, beautiful women--accessible even to cowards. Votes: 0

There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves. Votes: 0

God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively. Votes: 0

O Blessed Mary, whoever loves you honors God; whoever serves you pleases God; whoever invokes your holy name with a pure heart will infallibly receive the object of his petition. Votes: 0

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same. Votes: 0

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels. Votes: 0

The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues. Votes: 0

For those who kept saying it can't be done: Never are the victories or the honors won. But, rather, By the believing, doing kind, While the doubters watched From Far Behind. Votes: 0

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors. Votes: 0

Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway. Votes: 0

If you Google me, you'll find plenty of "dumb blonde" references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me. Votes: 0

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human? Votes: 0

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency. Votes: 0

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good. Votes: 0

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending. Votes: 0

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. Now, that's just a personal belief that I have. Votes: 0

[Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak. Votes: 0

I feel one of the most significant honors a player can have in his sport is to have his number retired. Certainly for me to have that at Tennessee, it's with great pride. Votes: 0

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education. Votes: 0

Coaching is about helping young people have a chance to succeed. There is no more awesome responsibility than that. One of the greatest honors a person can have is being called 'Coach.' Votes: 0

It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life. Votes: 0

A godly woman is beyond average because she keeps her word. She honors her vows. She exhibits great faith. She overcomes great obstacles. And she affects her family, her community, even the world. Votes: 0

At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life's school of affliction, graduating with honors. Votes: 0

Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful young men, and money was the only wholesome trait in his character. Votes: 0

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things. Votes: 0

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them Votes: 0

As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize. Votes: 0

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him. Votes: 0