Honored Quotes

• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Leadership, Motivational Sports

  Calvin Coolidge (1920). “Law and Order”

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• I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.

  William Mapother

  People, Entertainment, Inspired

  Source: collider.com

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• And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier's tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Inspiring, Country, Memorial Day

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• I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

  Casey Stengel

  Sports, Ballparks, Feels

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• God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

  A. B. Simpson

  Humble, Character, Age

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• I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

  Sally Ride

  Jobs, People, Important

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• I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

  Cindy Sheehan

  Sparks, Rage, Inferno

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• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  Laozi

  Flower, Careers, Two

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• How could you feel worthless when God has honoured you by creating you and choosing you to be with Him, in this life and the next? You are worthy. You are worthy of love. You are worthy of respect. You haven't failed. You're beautiful. Only the beautiful can see beauty. Never doubt your beauty. Never doubt your worth. It's not about how much you make, your grades, what people say or think. It's about you and God. It's about your heart. The blinding beauty of your heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Beautiful, Love You, Heart

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• It's a great honor... and it's an honor to be with her majesty, obviously... I'm very honored to be given this honor. 
  (upon receiving the OBE)

  David Beckham

  Honor, Receiving, Majesty

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• I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.

  Nancy O'Dell

  News, Tonight, Entertainment

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• Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!

  Anne Frank

  Pain, War, Hero

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.186, Bantam

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• I have been honored and privileged to have led The Rockefeller Foundation for the last seven years, and I am excited to be leading the Foundation as we enter our centennial year.

  Judith Rodin

  Years, Foundation, Lasts

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• I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Musician, Bills, Great Music

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• All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

  Walter Benjamin

  Time, Giving, Consistency

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• I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Artist, Feminist, Important

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, America, Lasts

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• Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

  Pope John XXIII

  Humble, People, Proud

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• God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.

  Charles Stanley

  Father, Religion, Answers

  Charles Stanley (2008). “Living the Extraordinary Life: Nine Principles to Discover It”, p.101, Thomas Nelson

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• Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Children, Flower, Clouds

  Thomas De Quincey (1856). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater, and Selected Essays”

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• Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

  Philo

  Hope, Wisdom, Giving

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• Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Success, Character, Divorce

  "A Civil Campaign: A Comedy of Biology and Manners". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense. The revolution desired by the leaders is moral and spiritual, it is an anarchy of ideas in which all the bases established nineteen centuries ago shall be overthrown, all the honored traditions trodden under foot, and, above all, the Christian ideal finally obliterated.

  Leon V. DePoncins

  Christian, Spiritual, Civilization

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• The people I'm honored to represent in Missouri and all over the country want leaders to address their kitchen table everyday problems.

  Dick Gephardt

  Country, Everyday Problems, People

  "Sen. Richard Gephardt's Speech Text". abcnews.go.com. August 16.

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• Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.

  John Jay Chapman

  Teacher, Teaching, Home

  John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Criticism & memoirs”

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