Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Marcel Proust

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

Joseph Addison

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

Joseph Addison

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

Khaled Hosseini

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

Henry David Thoreau

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

Mahatma Gandhi

I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

Laurence Sterne

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

Friedrich Schiller

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.