Honor Quotes

‘You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.’ – Aristotle

‘I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.’ – Sophocles

‘The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.’ – Socrates

‘All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.’ – Winston Churchill

‘It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.’ – Aeschylus

‘Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.’ – Bradley Whitford

‘I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.’ – Julius Caesar

‘It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘An award recognizing your talent is an honor. That matters a lot to me.’ – Payal Rohatgi

‘No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.’ – Calvin Coolidge

‘I don’t believe a champion is the biggest, baddest, meanest dude in the world. I think the champion is like a warrior; it’s like the head knight or lead samurai: humble men of integrity, respect, and honor that treat people kindly.’ – Jon Jones

‘Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.’ – Mary Oliver

‘Who sows virtue reaps honor.’ – Leonardo da Vinci

‘Honor lies in honest toil.’ – Grover Cleveland

‘Honor is simply the morality of superior men.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.’ – Charles Stanley

‘The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.’ – Lana Del Rey

‘Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.’ – Alexander Pope

‘It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.’ – Branch Rickey

‘Honor your commitments with integrity.’ – Les Brown

‘Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.’ – Thomas More

‘It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.’ – Plato

‘It is always an honor to put on a uniform.’ – Manny Machado

‘I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.’ – Charles Dickens

‘Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.’ – George W. Bush

‘Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.’ – Norman Mailer

‘Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up.’ – Maya Angelou

‘There is an honor to what we do, and there are no shortcuts.’ – Cody Rhodes

‘I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.’ – Alice Walker

‘To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.’ – Isaac Newton

‘Honor is the reward of virtue.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘Honor thy error as a hidden intention.’ – Brian Eno

‘I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God’s hands, and I am very happy about that! – Ken Hensley’ – Ken Hensley

‘All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.’ – Andrew Carnegie

‘All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.’ – John Adams

‘Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.’ – Douglas MacArthur

‘The honor of a nation is its life.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘It’s an absolute honor to be taking part in the pageant for the Diamond Jubilee. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and will be a moment in history that will always be remembered. I’m really looking forward to being out on the river with friends and family. To mark this historic moment will be extremely special.’ – Steve McFadden

‘Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.’ – John Greenleaf Whittier

‘Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.’ – Joseph Addison

‘Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.’ – Vartan Gregorian

‘When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.’ – Walter Scott

‘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.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘Winning an Oscar is an honor, but, between you and me, it does not makes things easier.’ – Robin Williams

‘Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.’ – Joe Paterno

‘Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you’ve got to want it.’ – Ricky Gervais

‘The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honor of him and celebrates his life.’ – Adrienne C. Moore

‘There’s more honor in investment management than in investment banking.’ – Charlie Munger

‘Place me behind prison walls – walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.’ – Karl G. Maeser

‘Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.’ – David D. Burns

‘When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death – that is heroism.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘To one who loves his country in all its parts, it is natural to rejoice in whatever contributes to the prosperity and honor and marks the stability and progress of any portion of its people.’ – Jefferson Davis

‘National honor is the national property of the highest value.’ – James Monroe

‘Muscles are fleeting. Bodies give out. But integrity, honor? The confidence to be oneself, to follow one’s heart? The compassionate drive to help others, even at great risk? That’s strength.’ – Marjorie Liu

‘I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘I knew that no matter what door you knock on in a Cretan village, it will be opened for you. A meal will be served in your honor, and you will sleep between the best sheets in the house. In Crete, the stranger is still the unknown god. Before him, all doors and all hearts are opened.’ – Nikos Kazantzakis

‘Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.’ – Ray Charles

‘It’s just such an honor to say that I was in something by Steven Spielberg. I feel so blessed I got to meet such great people, and I got to go to a beautiful place, Vancouver, and I had a great time.’ – Dakota Fanning

‘Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.’ – Rebecca Harding Davis

‘As we celebrate Labor Day, we honor the men and women who fought tirelessly for workers’ rights, which are so critical to our strong and successful labor force.’ – Elizabeth Esty

‘The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.’ – Dustin Diamond

‘Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘I can’t tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.’ – Jim Valvano

‘The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.’ – Daniel Webster

‘A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.’ – Walter Lippmann

‘It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.’ – Kenny Dalglish

‘The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.’ – Zora Neale Hurston

‘Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.’ – Desiderius Erasmus

‘A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.’ – Saint Ambrose

‘Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.’ – Zhuangzi

‘He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.’ – Publilius Syrus

‘As young West Point cadets, our motto was ‘duty, honor, country.’ But it was in the field, from the rice paddies of Southeast Asia to the sands of the Middle East, that I learned that motto’s fullest meaning. There I saw gallant young Americans of every race, creed and background fight, and sometimes die, for ‘duty, honor, and their country.” – Norman Schwarzkopf

‘Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.’ – Luke Bryan

‘Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘The necessary thing for anyone to be happy and contented as long as he lives is working for the ones who will come after him rather than working for himself… One can reach the true delight and happiness in the life only by working for the existence, honor, and happiness of the future generations.’ – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

‘The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her.’ – Catherine of Siena

‘We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.’ – Radhanath Swami

‘Honor your daughters. They are honorable.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.’ – James Cash Penney

‘The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America’s torch alone. But it is America’s duty – and honor – to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.’ – Mitt Romney

‘It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘We must honor, protect and support our police officers and their families every day of the year.’ – Janet Reno

‘To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes, that’s the biggest honor as an artist.’ – Zac Brown

‘I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.’ – Toussaint Louverture

‘Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.’ – Richard Rohr

‘It’s an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.’ – Bad Bunny

‘I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor.’ – David Beckham

‘Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.’ – Akhenaton

‘Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.’ – Philo

‘I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.’ – Ira Hayes

‘Our military, police, and first responders risk their lives to protect ours, and so today – and every day – we should thank those who serve and honor those we’ve lost.’ – Kim Reynolds

‘It’s my privilege and honor to cook three meals a day for my family, and it’s a luxury on a level that I didn’t even realize, because it can be relentless for me on some days. You have pride in how you take care of your family.’ – Julia Roberts

‘The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.’ – John Lennon

‘A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn’t work hard for validation.’ – Ryne Sandberg

‘My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.’ – August Wilson

‘Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.’ – David Hare

‘You know those award shows. The cliche is that it’s an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don’t know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it’s deserving.’ – Hank Azaria

‘Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.’ – Emily Post

‘We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.’ – Robert E. Lee

‘It’s an honor to be selected to the All-Star Game. It’s not something I take for granted.’ – Buster Posey

‘We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.’ – Mary Kay Ash

‘My grandfather renounced his Italian citizenship to come to this country and many members of my family were in the military. I will honor the flag and show solidarity with the flag. What can we stand for if we are not proud of this country?’ – Emily Compagno

‘When I started, athletes fought for honor, respect, philosophy.’ – Jose Aldo

‘For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.’ – Steve Buyer

‘I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It’s more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.’ – Lloyd Banks

‘I’ll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I’m going to fight for my dignity and my honor.’ – Ferdinand Marcos

‘To put on the pinstripe – it’s extraordinary. Just being able to play one game with the Yankees is quite an honor.’ – Aaron Judge

‘For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.’ – Deepak Chopra

‘What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they?’ – Orson F. Whitney

‘Now, today is the day we honor, of course, the Presidents, ranging from George Washington, who couldn’t tell a lie, to George Bush, who couldn’t tell the truth, to Bill Clinton, who couldn’t tell the difference.’ – Jay Leno

‘It’s an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.’ – Jencarlos Canela

‘Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions form our true honor.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.’ – Rip Torn

‘Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.’ – Grover Cleveland

‘If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures – warriors, swordswomen – who defended honor and loyalty with the men. So, it’s not new to our culture – it’s always been very much a part of it. It’s good that now the Western audience would have a different image of the Chinese women.’ – Michelle Yeoh

‘Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.’ – Pramoedya Ananta Toer

‘It’s an honor to be chosen to serve as Mayor Hancock’s deputy mayor. This position comes with great responsibility, but should the need arise, I know I am up to the challenge.’ – Cary Kennedy

‘It is such an unimaginable honor to be sharing the light yet again with Beyonce on her sold out Mrs. Carter Show World Tour. This is a blessing that I do not take lightly.’ – Luke James

‘And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.’ – Edward Fitzgerald

‘To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.’ – James Allen

‘Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.’ – Margaret Chase Smith

‘It was a privilege and an honor to work alongside Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Working with people at the top of their game was like a master class.’ – Shangela

‘The pushback I get is, ‘He’s a hedge fund guy.’ Full stop. Some places, that can be a badge of honor. In others, it’s almost a term of derision.’ – Edward Lampert

‘For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.’ – Aristotle

‘When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.’ – George B. McClellan

‘So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘It’s my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.’ – Doug Flutie

‘When The Byrds started country-rock, we had no idea there would be such a thing. We were just trying to honor the music. We started listening to country radio. We went to Nudie’s and got cowboy clothes.’ – Roger McGuinn

‘Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.’ – Bill Rancic

‘The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one’s inner power.’ – Xun Kuang

‘The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America’s most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed – it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.’ – Doc Hastings

‘If you’re going to write about someone’s life, you don’t just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.’ – Nick Flynn

‘I’ve actually been in more Elimination Chamber matches than any other human being on the planet. It really has been a badge of honor for me.’ – Chris Jericho

‘I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.’ – Salma Hayek

‘It’s been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I’m far from perfect, but I learned a lot.’ – Steve Yzerman

‘If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.’ – William Shakespeare

‘It is an honor to serve as the Ad Council’s next Chair of the Board of Directors. I am deeply committed to its mission of creating campaigns that improve everyday lives. I look forward to working with the Ad Council team and Board to continue to shine a light on the most important social issues of our day.’ – Margo Georgiadis

‘God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.’ – John Hagee

‘One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar’s health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.’ – Mary Antin

‘All is lost save honor.’ – Francis I

‘The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.’ – T. E. Lawrence

‘Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.’ – Marcel Pagnol

‘Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several important things very quickly. Whether they will be of use to him is conditioned by survival. Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘If you seek Hamilton’s monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton’s country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.’ – George Will

‘We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.’ – Theodor Herzl

‘We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.’ – Michael Scheuer

‘Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.’ – Susana Martinez

‘The first ‘Blade Runner’ is a cool movie. It’s a classic. Just to be part of the sequel was such an honor and a beautiful learning experience.’ – Ana de Armas

‘My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.’ – John Woo

‘My mother and I have always had a very close relationship, so I wanted to honor my mom by naming my daughter Julia as well.’ – Lacey Chabert

‘You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.’ – Camila Cabello

‘Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.’ – Sophocles

‘The world assumes that we are very happy with high mansions, fine carriages, servants and attendants, huge investments, and concubines. But he who is without the honor and strength of the soul can be anything but happy.’ – Munshi Premchand

‘America is the light, and her people are the goodness that grows from that. She’ll always be worth fighting for – it was my greatest honor to fight for her every day of my adult life.’ – Marcus Luttrell

‘It’s important to show solidarity for a child, no matter what. It’s important for a child to be raised in a situation where she sees love, solidarity, commitment and honor.’ – Joe Nichols

‘We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.’ – Barbara Lee

‘I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.’ – Lana Del Rey

‘A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.’ – Benjamin N. Cardozo

‘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

‘Christ’s Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place: he knows he has it, and he is aware of his duty to keep it with honor, dignity, and grace.’ – Pope John XXIII

‘I can’t do anything better than Pat White. I love that dude. Was an honor to be on his team in college.’ – Pat McAfee

‘The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.’ – Jose Marti

‘For a while, I was feeling like I was always playing characters that weren’t specifically Korean or specifically Asian, even – that they were characters who were originally written white, and then they would cast me. And I used to consider that a badge of honor because that meant I had avoided stereotypes.’ – John Cho

‘I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it’s just me in charge, but sometimes it’s just really – I think that there’s honor in being a good artist, and there’s honor in being a good ‘craftsperson.” – David Henry Hwang

‘I’m tired of playing people who are complete washouts and bums. I don’t mind waiting for the good ones to come along. It’s like age. It’s never bothered me. I’ve even forgot my birthday. Many times I’ve wondered if I should tell my real age, but now I think it’s an honor, to be doing what I’m doing now at my age.’ – Harry Dean Stanton

‘There’s a very fundamental basic value system that I think America was built upon, and that’s mutual respect, honor, integrity and concern for our environment and the right to clean water. And we have moved away from it.’ – Erin Brockovich

‘My belief is that I wasn’t born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.’ – Ram Dass

‘I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It’s very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy – a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they’re required to keep an agreement with you only if you’re successful or they need you.’ – James Cameron

‘When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don’t honor them enough, we don’t pay them enough.’ – Charles Kuralt

‘You’ve got to honor your relationship with your audience – that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn’t mean you can’t provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.’ – David E. Kelley

‘To be a Miss Universe is both an honor and responsibility.’ – Pia Wurtzbach

‘Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘I hold the utmost respect and admiration for the coaches in this league, so to be recognized by my peers is an incredible honor.’ – Monty Williams

‘Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come… It’s an honor and a privilege. I was called and I’ve got to be here.’ – Antonio Villaraigosa

‘A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than self-love and friendship love. You can’t do that. You have to honor and really fully invest in all these different loving relationships.’ – Delilah

‘Literary dementia seems dated now, but there was a time when a month in the funny farm was as de rigueur for budding writers as an M.F.A. is now. To be sent away was a badge of honor; to undergo electroshock, a glorious martyrdom.’ – Walter Kirn

‘There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.’ – Ann Landers

‘The U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is almost completely ineffective, as many other countries, including the European Union, do not honor it.’ – Robert Zubrin

‘True freedom is where an individual’s thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor – no matter the personal price.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘As to honor – you know – it’s a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn’t theirs.’ – Joseph Conrad

‘Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word ‘citizen’ was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘I’ve had the honor and privilege of knowing Jeff for over 25 years. He’s been a dear friend and a mentor, and there is no finer person in public service than Jeff Sessions. He’s conducted himself with the greatest integrity of any public official I’ve ever met.’ – Luther Strange

‘The sailor’s life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.’ – John Tyler

‘On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a ‘Restoring Honor’ revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.’ – James Wolcott

‘The wardrobe department isn’t a bunch of elves there to serve you; they’re artists with vision. Honor them.’ – Michaela Watkins

‘The most important thing my grandfather taught me was that the most noble way to use your skills, intellect and energy is to defend the marginalized against those with the greatest power – and that the resulting animosity from those in power is a badge of honor.’ – Glenn Greenwald

‘Self-deprecation runs right through queer culture. It was seen as a badge of honor. I started to feel like perhaps it was destructive as well.’ – Hannah Gadsby

‘Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.’ – John McCarthy

‘I’ve had the honor and the pleasure and gift of having known Elizabeth Taylor for a number of years. You know, you sit down with her, she slings hash, she sits there and cusses like a sailor, and she’s hilarious.’ – Johnny Depp

‘These opportunities don’t come around too often. It’s quite an honor and a privilege to be able to sit here today saying that I’m a part-owner of an NFL team.’ – Marc Anthony

‘Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.’ – Alfred Hershey

‘Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.’ – Isaac Newton

‘What is left when honor is lost?’ – Publilius Syrus

‘Nicole will come up in conversations where it’s in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.’ – O. J. Simpson

‘I didn’t always know, but I always wanted to. I always wanted to be the very best receiver the Cowboys ever had. That was my goal coming in as a rookie and my goal throughout my career: being the best they ever had, going up in the Ring of Honor.’ – Michael Irvin

‘The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I’m going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.’ – Flea

‘People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.’ – Tom Arnold

‘The tremendous honor of playing on the world stage is even more rewarding when I am able to use my accomplishments to help others.’ – Christen Press

‘Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.’ – Patricia Polacco

‘It’s an honor and a blessing to be part of ‘R.B.I. Baseball.” – Mookie Betts

‘I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.’ – Richard Lovelace

‘The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there’s kind of a place for that – to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I’m sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.’ – Sasha Velour

‘You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That’s all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don’t have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.’ – George Tenet

‘Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.’ – John Howe

‘I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.’ – Carol Shea-Porter

‘You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.’ – William Lyon Phelps

‘Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.’ – Francis Quarles

‘Honor wears different coats to different eyes.’ – Barbara W. Tuchman

‘It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency. President Obama’s strength of character leads him to do the right thing, even when it isn’t the easy thing.’ – Harry Reid

‘It is an honor and a privilege to be of service and support; however, I realize people are not putting their confidence in me. Instead, they are actually learning to trust themselves. My job is to affirm and support them in the process and teach them to do what I do when I need strength: I begin within.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘From Clara Barton’s tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female combat fighter pilot Lt. Kara Hultgreen, no list of American heroes is complete without the names of some of these extraordinary women.’ – Brian Kilmeade

‘It’s always an honor to represent your country.’ – Sammy Sosa

‘It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.’ – Jasmine Guy

‘I honor God that much in the way I play. That’s why I never believe in getting tired. I don’t even know what that word means.’ – Ray Lewis

‘If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.’ – William Shakespeare

‘When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it’s a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.’ – Drew Carey

‘As the father of two daughters, the ongoing struggle for women’s equality is very personal for me. That’s why it has been an honor during my time in Congress to support women’s rights by advocating for reproductive rights, equal pay, access to paid maternity leave and quality child care.’ – Mike Quigley

‘November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should stop to think about our country’s beginning and that the United States would not exist if not for a great deal of sacrifice, blood, and tears by Indian Tribes across the country.’ – Deb Haaland

‘A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor this privilege: her father, bishop, husband, brothers, sons. They value her and the divine gifts given by God to His daughter. They sustain and encourage, and they understand the great mission of her life as a woman. They love her; they bless her.’ – Margaret D. Nadauld

‘Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we’ve scrubbed the dirt off the face of work, and consequently we’ve created this suspicion of anything that’s too dirty.’ – Mike Rowe

‘I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.’ – Joni Eareckson Tada

‘My audience knows me, and I wear beautiful clothes as a badge of honor. They remember where I came from.’ – Sandra Lee

‘Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.’ – Cesare Lombroso

‘Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.’ – Paul Kalanithi

‘Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘The turban is a Sikh’s honor, pride and art.’ – Puneet Issar

‘Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today, ‘Lets think of all the poor dead people’ – or ‘let’s honor all the dead’ instead of fighting for the living. He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.’ – Larry Kramer

‘I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book ‘War is a Racket.” – Jesse Ventura

‘Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.’ – Akhenaton

‘I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.’ – Robert E. Lee

‘If you’re in front of a Ring of Honor crowd and you suck, they’ll let you know.’ – Cody Rhodes

‘Any award the NBA gives you, whether it’s on the court or off the court, it’s definitely an honor.’ – Tristan Thompson

‘If, by any chance, I get to perform, then it would be a great honor for me. Especially because performing in the Olympics in your country doesn’t happen to many skaters.’ – Kim Yuna

‘You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don’t care.’ – Jack Kevorkian

‘Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.’ – Aristotle

‘Fatherhood is an honor, and men should be strong enough to step up to the plate.’ – Karamo Brown

‘It is an honor to open in New York City and to have the opportunity to serve and share our family’s version of American Chinese food and hospitality. New York City deeply influenced my passion for food and service, and it feels good to be back.’ – Andrew Cherng

‘To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‘Starboy’ is an honor.’ – The Weeknd

‘To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.’ – Oscar Pistorius

‘Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.’ – Ernest Hemingway

‘For our teams that do great work, we have a tradition of giving Rolex watches. If you see all the key guys with their Rolexes, that’s sort of our Medal of Honor if you do something big.’ – Ross Perot, Jr.

‘The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.’ – Ali Khamenei

‘Our children need to remember to love each other, how to honor each other, their parents, God, and their neighbors.’ – Alveda King

‘Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the very man who is willing to share and give the honor to others in the doing of things that made him great?’ – Charles M. Schwab

‘The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.’ – Thomas Babington Macaulay

‘Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.’ – Nathan Myhrvold

‘Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one’s parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.’ – Alice Miller

‘I think Ring of Honor is becoming a legitimate threat in the world of pro wrestling. To say that Ring of Honor would be WWE is getting a little bit ahead of yourself. At the same time, I think Ring of Honor can definitely be a place where guys can make a living.’ – Adam Cole

‘Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.’ – Hernan Cortes

‘I promise by my conscience and honor to faithfully fulfill the obligations of the office of president of the government with loyalty to the King, and to keep and enforce the Constitution as the fundamental norm of the State.’ – Pedro Sanchez

‘To represent your country is an honor and a great experience.’ – Michelle Kwan

‘Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role… I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘We want to remake ‘The Jerk’ with so and so.’ And I say, ‘Fine.’ It just doesn’t bother me. It’s an honor actually.’ – Steve Martin

‘I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It’s fantastic to be invited; I’m so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor.’ – Sebastian Vettel

‘I would like to have a filmography of the late Lee Je-hoon’ list on Netflix or to have a DVD collection of my works. It would be a great honor.’ – Lee Je-hoon

‘It’s an honor to put on the Habs uniform and hopefully have the opportunity to play here a lot longer now. Now I can just focus on the goal of winning a Stanley Cup and I don’t have to worry about re-signing every other year, so I’m looking forward to working towards our goal.’ – Carey Price

‘The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.’ – Dave Grohl

‘Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.’ – Ben Jonson

‘The real minister’s name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.’ – Aron Ralston

‘When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘I’ll play for whoever wants to have me. It’s an honor to be in the discussion for anything.’ – Joe Burrow

‘I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.’ – Grover Cleveland

‘Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they’re gang wars and racial riots.’ – Jessica Savitch

‘When Honor’s sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.’ – Edward Cocker

‘Whatever may be my feelings of personal gratitude to the Navy of the United States, I feel myself under still greater obligations to them for the honor they have done to the American name in every part of the globe.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘Everyone has a story to tell, and in a perfect world, everyone would get the opportunity to tell it. Some of us have the stories, some of us have the words, and some of us have both. Let’s honor the portions we bring to the table and give credit where credit is due.’ – Rebecca Serle

‘Calvin Klein is such an iconic brand in fashion, so I feel like working with them means you’re definitely doing something right. They bring validation to someone, not only in the fashion community but in someone’s career, which is why it was such an honor to work with them.’ – Cameron Dallas

‘It is an honor to represent my country in the Olympics.’ – DeAndre Jordan

‘It’s an incredible honor to be nominated by the Academy.’ – Lee Unkrich

‘For the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.’ – Jim Mattis

‘I’m a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don’t lie.’ – Jerry Weintraub

‘MAC is truly at the forefront of trendsetting, which reminds me every time I see a MAC campaign or the incredible looks their artists create backstage at fashion weeks around the world. It’s an honor to partner with a brand with such an incredible heritage and unrivaled expertise in makeup artistry.’ – Lisa

‘Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.’ – William Shakespeare

‘I shy away from celebrity status because I don’t want to be known as that guy. But I had a chance to partake in the events and the festivities of the Kentucky Derby, and that was a huge honor.’ – Teddy Bridgewater

‘I am invading homes everywhere, all over the Internet and on TV – all you have to do is search the name, and you can find me anywhere, from New Japan World to Ring of Honor.’ – Kenny Omega

‘The ‘Phoenix Sun’ did a list of the unsexiest men in the world, and I made it to number one. I beat out Bin Laden. He’s a terrorist, hasn’t bathed in months. I beat him out. To me it was a great honor.’ – Gilbert Gottfried

‘I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.’ – Geronimo

‘From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don’t write political plays.’ – August Wilson

‘I’m a patriot. I admire our military, their character, code of honor, belief systems.’ – Peter Berg

‘Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.’ – Matthew Green

”The Price Is Right,’ it was an honor to be offered it because it’s such an American institution. To be able to carry on this tradition with a show that has been on for so long, I thought it was a great opportunity for me.’ – Drew Carey

‘These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.’ – Michael N. Castle

‘I often say ‘I didn’t write the script, but I’m learning to live it out with the best of my ability for the honor of God, with dignity, with grace, with favor, embracing His word.” – Paula White

‘It’s a privilege and an honor to play for the national team, but I think that the training that I was in at Frankfurt was the highest level right underneath.’ – Ali Krieger

‘If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.’ – Adam Clarke

‘I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?’ – Douglas MacArthur

‘Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn’t honor me.’ – Garcelle Beauvais

‘Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.’ – Miguel de Cervantes

‘I think it’s a tremendous honor to wear the blue and white and represent the city of Toronto and wear the Maple Leaf every night.’ – Auston Matthews

‘Being named NFLPA Community MVP is an amazing honor.’ – Ha Ha Clinton-Dix

‘My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.’ – Wayne Dyer

‘It truly has been an honor to play in Indianapolis. I do love it here. I love the fans, and I will always enjoy having played for such a great team.’ – Peyton Manning

‘Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God’s honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘My whole right arm is tattooed in honor of ‘Wizard of Oz.’ – Todrick Hall’ – Todrick Hall

‘When I’m on that stage, I assume honor. I assume compensation, and I should.’ – Nina Simone

‘At my funeral, if one said, ‘Nick was a generous person,’ trust me I won’t be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.’ – Nick Vujicic

‘Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?’ – Pat Buchanan

‘Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.’ – Gary Hamel

‘It’s a great honor to represent my family and where I’m from always.’ – Ronald Acuna Jr.

‘Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.’ – Luis Fonsi

‘It’s an honor to be even mentioned in the same breath as Walter Payton.’ – Kenny Stills

‘He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice.’ – Walter Savage Landor

‘Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.’ – Thomas Hardy

‘A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.’ – Margaret of Valois

‘Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘I remember my late father, who was the biggest football fan I have ever known, used to stress when I was younger that, win or lose, you always have to compete with honor.’ – Adam Richman

‘Feminists don’t honor successful women. You never hear them talking about Margaret Thatcher. Take Condoleezza Rice. She’s a remarkable, successful woman. You don’t hear the feminists talk about her or Carly Fiorina or Jeanne Kirkpatrick.’ – Phyllis Schlafly

‘It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.’ – Andre Gide

‘In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.’ – Meg Greenfield

‘No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.’ – Douglas MacArthur

‘In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.’ – Boris Pasternak

‘As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘Honor is but an empty bubble.’ – John Dryden

‘Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.’ – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

‘There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness.’ – Eldridge Cleaver

‘To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.’ – Walter Scott

‘No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.’ – Walter Bagehot

‘A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend’s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she’s really attractive.’ – Bruce Jay Friedman

‘He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.’ – Walter Lippmann

‘Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.’ – Margaret Fuller

‘There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors… But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.’ – Claude Adrien Helvetius

‘Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.’ – Eric Sevareid

‘Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.’ – Laura Schlessinger

‘Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.’ – Eugene McCarthy

‘Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and ‘Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.’ – William Wycherley

‘He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.’ – Joseph Addison

‘Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.’ – David Hare

‘Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.’ – Friedrich Schiller

‘When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘Ability without honor is useless.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don’t resent them, you are not fit to live.’ – Bernard de Mandeville

‘Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.’ – Alexander Pope

‘The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.’ – Blaine Lee

‘I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.’ – Charles Baudelaire

‘I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There’s no better time to try this than now.’ – Michael Phelps

‘I believe with all my heart that America remains ‘the great idea’ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger

‘I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.’ – Barbara Mikulski

‘It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation – through compassion and courage – about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.’ – Mark Pryor

‘A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.’ – Frederick William Robertson

‘We can best honor the memories of those who were killed on September 11 and those who have been killed fighting the war on terrorism, by dedicating ourselves to building a free and peaceful world safe from the threat of terrorism.’ – Jack Reed

‘We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.’ – Susan Collins

‘The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation. And I did it with honor.’ – Hosni Mubarak

‘You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it’s upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don’t like old women. We don’t honor age in our society, and we certainly don’t honor it in Hollywood.’ – Tyne Daly

‘As we talk about the need to foster academic achievement, we must recognize and reward those who strive academically, just as we honor athletic champions. Meeting the President of the United States is just the honor we should bestow on our academic champions.’ – Brad Sherman

‘The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.’ – James Shirley

‘There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.’ – Francis I

‘Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn’t lead it – sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor – who will?’ – Cal Thomas

‘Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America’s important strategies in space.’ – Rob Bishop

‘Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it’s all about what’s good for the party and not necessarily what’s good for the country.’ – Ricardo Montalban

‘Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.’ – Suzanne Fields

‘Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.’ – James Lane Allen

‘I really took filmmaking very seriously… It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I’m a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.’ – John Singleton

‘It’s not someone else’s responsibility to honor my marriage. It’s my responsibility.’ – David Duchovny

‘At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot – it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather’s land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.’ – Jack Bowman

‘Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.’ – David Mallet

‘But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.’ – Mitchell Reiss

‘You have to defend your honor. And your family.’ – Suzanne Vega

‘It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.’ – Young Buck

‘Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others.’ – Richard Kiel

‘If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don’t you think it’s a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not ‘honor’ but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.’ – Mercedes Lackey

‘But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don’t have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they’re a movie star.’ – Victoria Jackson

‘We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.’ – Mark Hoppus

‘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 am still being recognized as Joanie and probably will as long as Happy Days is playing on TV and remembered by Happy Days fans. It has and will always be a pleasure and a honor for me to be a part of it.’ – Erin Moran

‘You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.’ – Florence Ellinwood Allen

‘If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.’ – Matthew Simpson

‘And the university’s reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine’s are spread. Delaware State University’s motto ‘a past to honor, a future to insure,’ couldn’t be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.’ – Michael N. Castle

‘Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?’ – Mike Judge

‘Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show’s high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod’s and Johnny’s shoes are huge; I can’t think about filling them.’ – Randy West

‘I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.’ – Frank B. Kellogg

‘A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.’ – Sun Ra

‘Those of us who participate realize the incredible honor bestowed on us, but to really understand the true scope and depth of the movement requires more investigation and concentration.’ – Bill Toomey

‘When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.’ – Bill Toomey

‘To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.’ – Dennis Banks

‘But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.’ – Bainbridge Colby

‘In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.’ – John Sergeant Wise

‘Unfortunately, in today’s world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.’ – James L. Buckley

‘Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.’ – Paul Weyrich

‘It’s an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it’s original intent and form and has transcended… itself!’ – Christopher Knight

‘I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it’s not going to be on a drama.’ – Adam Arkin

‘We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody’s sure in honor of what.’ – Robyn Hitchcock

‘You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don’t want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great – something where the residuals will go to the cause.’ – Carly Simon

‘Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.’ – Bob Ehrlich

‘It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I’ve been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked.’ – Jared Leto

‘Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.’ – Richard Neal

‘I want the public to know that it will be an honor for me to meet them and spend a few special moments with all those who helped me through my filmed career.’ – Tony Curtis

‘It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like – you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.’ – Jim Bakker

‘The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their – shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.’ – Henry Cabot Lodge

‘Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that’s smaller than you and you beat them, where’s the honor in that?’ – Carol Moseley Braun

‘It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.’ – Peter Agre

‘We produce programs that honor God and impact our world.’ – Willie Aames

‘It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.’ – Joe Baca

‘The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?’ – Billy Preston

‘Not that money is a driving force. It’s an honor to play for your country.’ – Payne Stewart

‘My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A’s and 2 B’s.’ – Ryan White

‘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

‘Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.’ – Henry Laurens

‘To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.’ – Leon Askin

‘First of all, it was such an honor to be chosen. You had to be voted in by players and coaches that time. But having it in Hawai’i was a brilliant idea.’ – Dan Fouts

‘I’m over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It’s incredible.’ – Dan Fouts

‘The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.’ – Hjalmar Schacht

‘Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it’s on a weekly critical basis or whether it’s award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.’ – Ivan Reitman

‘We remain at peace with all nations, and no efforts on my part consistent with the preservation of our rights and the honor of the country shall be spared to maintain a position so consonant to our institutions.’ – Martin Van Buren

‘But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.’ – Harry Houdini

‘I’m very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.’ – Kathleen Turner

‘But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.’ – Tim Holden

‘I feel, as never before, how justly, from the dawn of history to the present time, men have paid the homage of their gratitude and admiration to the memory of those who nobly sacrifice their lives, that their fellow-men may live in safety and in honor.’ – Edward Everett

‘As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace.’ – Rene Cassin

‘I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.’ – Alan Parsons

‘We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.’ – Bob Ney

‘But it’s been a great, humbling – and I’ve been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it’s been the greatest honor of my life.’ – Hugh Shelton

‘As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.’ – Dan Lipinski

‘We must honor our country’s tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants.’ – Jose Serrano

‘The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.’ – George Wald

‘At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance – In killing there is more than commentary.’ – Allen Tate

‘Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it’s mind-blowing.’ – Dominique Wilkins

‘As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who’ve dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.’ – Dave Reichert

‘Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.’ – Mark Foley

‘To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.’ – Solomon Ortiz

‘From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.’ – Solomon Ortiz

‘After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson’s bold vision for westward expansion for America.’ – Russ Carnahan

‘Our troops are committed to bringing security to Iraq while its government matures. American forces will continue to accomplish their mission with caution, precision and honor with the thanks of a grateful nation.’ – Mike Fitzpatrick

‘Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.’ – Cordell Hull

‘If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.’ – Zebulon Pike

‘A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.’ – Zebulon Pike

‘You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.’ – Willard Libby

‘We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.’ – Willard Libby

‘I had the honor and privilege of working with John Ritter.’ – Will Friedle

‘The local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allowed my work here to reflect the needs and interests of the people within the 9th Congressional District. It’s been an honor to do that and we did so successfully.’ – Nick Lampson

‘There really is something raw about sexuality that’s real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But – we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex.’ – Kyan Douglas

‘For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.’ – James T. Walsh

‘From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.’ – George Carey

‘I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.’ – Dennis Eckersley

‘I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that.’ – James Dickey

‘The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.’ – Moshe Katsav

‘I only worked on Men of Honor for three weeks, but I walked away with so much. Because Bob is the kind of actor who gives you the opportunity to really go there. And we really had to go there. I mean, we were both playing drunks.’ – Charlize Theron

‘I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.’ – Sidney Sheldon

‘It’s an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.’ – Robert Redford

‘I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.’ – Rocco DiSpirito

‘A writer has to live with a sense of honor.’ – Irwin Shaw

‘A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.’ – Irwin Shaw

‘Presenting statues of honor to reporters for covering an earthquake is like presenting a first prize to a doctor for performing surgery.’ – Phil Donahue

‘While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.’ – Raul Grijalva

‘It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that’s fun.’ – Claudio Reyna

‘I’ve come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.’ – Kathy Mattea

‘Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm’s way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.’ – Zach Wamp

‘Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.’ – Joe Moore

‘I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.’ – Ozzy Osbourne

‘I still had some honor… I still have some now.’ – Roman Polanski

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

‘Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.’ – Norman Mailer

‘If there’s anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.’ – Pat Boone

‘The music business can be very cold. And it doesn’t honor its elders.’ – Brenda Lee

‘The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.’ – Ralph Chaplin

‘My honor is my loyalty.’ – Heinrich Himmler

‘Let’s use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.’ – Randall Terry

‘We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?’ – A. B. Yehoshua

‘The law often allows what honor forbids.’ – Bernard Joseph Saurin

‘Without money honor is merely a disease.’ – Jean Racine

‘I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.’ – Pierre Corneille

‘Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.’ – Livy

‘Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.’ – Anna Quindlen

‘I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.’ – Ishmael Reed

‘Any time you’re mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it’s a great honor. He’s one of my idols. He’s one of the greatest of all time.’ – Curtis Joseph

‘God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.’ – Norah Jones

‘It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.’ – Antonio Banderas

‘I’m not recognized very often, and if I am, it’s a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.’ – Kristen Bell

”m thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor ‘This Week’ and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.’ – Christiane Amanpour

‘To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General’s office is the honor of a lifetime. As you know, this is an office with a long and rich tradition, not only of extraordinary legal skill but also of extraordinary professionalism and integrity. That is due, in large measure, to the people who have led it.’ – Elena Kagan

‘I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don’t think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I’d like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven’t seen them yet, but they’ll show up.’ – Glenn Beck

‘I don’t know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it’s crazy. It’s such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It’s like winning the lottery. I’m proud to be a member of such an amazing cast – that’s the best award of all.’ – Hailee Steinfeld

‘I think we ought to all take a step back and remember where we were 24, 48 hours ago, a week ago, two weeks ago – the prospect that was hanging out there that America would not honor its obligations for the first time in its history, and the impact that would have on our economy and the global economy.’ – Jay Carney

‘It’s a tremendous honor. It really is a privilege, not just a right. You’re in the NFL and you wear the shield now. It means the world to me; it really is a special feeling, and my family’s gotten a real kick out of it.’ – Mark Sanchez

‘If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.’ – Alveda King

‘We’re reclaiming America and restoring honor. I believe we do that with faith, with hope, with charity, and honoring our brothers and our sisters as we honor each other.’ – Alveda King

‘To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.’ – Shaun Alexander

‘I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can’t. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.’ – Andrew Fastow

‘The Women’s Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I’m excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.’ – Angela Ruggiero

‘It’s an honor to support such a worthy program. TURF aims to protect the integrity of tailgating and to keep game day family-friendly.’ – Boomer Esiason

‘You want to win. Everyone says, ‘It’s just an honor to be nominated,’ but that’s so not true. You want to win.’ – Chris Kirkpatrick

‘Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it’s a blessing. It’s a big responsibility, but at the same time it’s an honor.’ – Faith Evans

‘As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you’re one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.’ – Carrie-Anne Moss

‘Everyone says, ‘It’s just an honor to be nominated,’ but that’s so not true. You want to win.’ – Chris Kirkpatrick

‘I don’t know what’s going on that I’m hosting the Emmys during really hard times. But I guess it’s an honor and a privilege that I’m the one who gets to try to walk that line of making people feel good.’ – Julie Chen

‘My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond – in front of you to serve my country.’ – Francois Hollande

‘I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘It’s an honor to win a Grammy, of course.’ – Jonny Lang

‘Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.’ – Carmelo Anthony

‘I’m proud of the U.S.A. We’ve done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.’ – Shaun White

‘It’s certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.’ – Jodi Picoult

‘America’s honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history of the world.’ – Rick Santorum

‘It’s an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I’m not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.’ – Bubba Watson

‘It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.’ – Solange Knowles

‘Of course, for me, having served 22 years in the military and to have the opportunity to continue to serve my country is a great honor and is a privilege. So that’s what makes it special each and every day.’ – Allen West

‘I’m not running from any particular problems, I just want to take some time and figure out in my life where I can keep doing what I’m doing but in a way that I can also honor what I want to do for myself.’ – Andy Stern

‘It has been an honor to work in the Obama Administration and to serve this President, particularly during a period of unprecedented change in the broader Middle East. Obviously, there is still work to do but I promised my wife I would return to government for only two years and we both agreed it is time to act on my promise.’ – Dennis Ross

‘I welcome a discussion on a long-term, pro-active approach to disaster relief for Americans. Until Congress arrives at a conclusion, however, we must continue to honor America’s honorable tradition of helping Americans recover for natural catastrophes.’ – Cedric Richmond

‘A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.’ – Paul Ryan

‘Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.’ – Allen West

‘The reason why I’m here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I’m running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is… I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.’ – Marco Rubio

‘When I was first elected I was puzzled why they were holding events in my honor as a mere freshman. I asked myself, why is a federal entity so involved in political activity?’ – Brian Baird

‘We have to honor our commitments to today’s beneficiaries, but we can’t solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.’ – Nan Hayworth

‘Normally, I’ve found in my life that the louder you speak, probably, the less of a fighter you are. All the fighters I’ve had a chance and the honor to serve with didn’t pat themselves on the back, were pretty humble men and women.’ – David Dewhurst

‘Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life… It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.’ – J. C. Watts

‘There’s not much out there that people are fighting for that leaves them with nothing but honor.’ – Jeffrey Donovan

‘I’ve seen the video played over and over, and it replays in my head constantly. To be able to walk in his exact footsteps is an extremely huge honor, and I did this for him as much as I did it for my family to get some closure too.’ – Nik Wallenda

‘The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.’ – A. J. Jacobs

‘Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.’ – Mitt Romney

‘And let me make this very clear – unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America’s first liberty: the freedom of religion.’ – Mitt Romney

‘I never make a movie for awards consideration. I will use the hope of getting an Academy Award a) to honor the people who work so hard and also b) it’s the greatest Good Housekeeping seal in the world. It’s the greatest brand. It’s as good as Louis Vuitton and Dior in the world of moviemaking. It’s the Super Bowl.’ – Harvey Weinstein

‘But for us Democrats, Obamacare is a badge of honor. Because no matter who you are, what stage of life you’re in, this law is a good thing.’ – Kathleen Sebelius

‘It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country’s coach.’ – Mike Krzyzewski

‘It’s always an honor to be ranked high, but whatever is said about you, you take it and then take a realistic look at yourself and who you are.’ – Mike Krzyzewski

‘I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.’ – Abel Ferrara

‘In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan’s son. What a great honor.’ – Michael Reagan

‘You know, rural Americans are a special people. Their labor puts food on our table and fuel in our gas tanks. Their service in our military sets a powerful example of leadership, honor and sacrifice. Their spirit of community inspires us all.’ – Tom Vilsack

‘I don’t think there’s any honor bigger than going to your Hall of Fame for your sport.’ – Pete Rose

‘America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation’s debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.’ – Peter Welch

‘The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.’ – George H. W. Bush

‘For me, it’s an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I’m happy to go.’ – R. Lee Ermey

‘Regardless of your political affiliation, most people agree that Ronald Reagan was an American icon. He was a president of national significance and for that reason he deserves an honor in the nation’s capital.’ – Henry Bonilla

‘Being named as a finalist for the USA Basketball National Team is an unbelievable feeling and an opportunity that is truly humbling. It is an honor to be included with such talented players and I look forward to the chance to represent my country this summer.’ – James Harden

‘I’ve been leading newsrooms for a while now and it’s been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it – by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.’ – Ron Fournier

‘During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.’ – Bart Starr

‘Maybe I’m old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.’ – Brett Favre

‘I’ve been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.’ – Cobi Jones

‘To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.’ – Brittany Murphy

‘Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn’t honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.’ – Patrick Dempsey

‘I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchy’s sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, ‘The Artist is Present’, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.’ – Joan Smalls

‘The last five – six presidents of Haiti have failed miserably. And I don’t think it would be an honor for me to say I want to be the next ‘president.’ I want to be the man by with whom change arrives.’ – Michel Martelly

‘The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don’t feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it’s like I’m doing my job.’ – J. R. Martinez

‘I’m also a huge cinephile, and I have witnessed that to honor the book literally word-for-word never makes a good movie.’ – Andrew Stanton

‘If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it’s that they honor working people.’ – Adriana Trigiani

‘I think it is a huge honor to get to go play for the troops who have been working their tails off for several years, some with several tours under their belt.’ – Joe Nichols

‘I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.’ – Tayari Jones

‘Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships with them. They must become architects of community, consistently demonstrating the values that their customer community expects in exchange for their loyalty and purchases.’ – Simon Mainwaring

‘As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create – and as someone who’s trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.’ – David Nail

‘Becoming a CoverGirl is truly an honor and a gift. It opens up a new platform for me to inspire women to feel stronger, braver and more beautiful inside and out.’ – Janelle Monae

‘But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.’ – Lynn Samuels

‘It’s always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try to make people believe that you’re that guy, which is really hard.’ – Michael Shannon

‘I don’t know if it’s harder but when you’re playing a real person you want to honor their memory – even if they’re a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.’ – Toby Jones

‘He’s this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we’ve made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It’s been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.’ – Zack Snyder

‘All my life, Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as ‘the richest, freest’ country in the world. By most measurements, it was long a contender for that honor, and – among the larger countries, if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom – probably did deserve to be so described.’ – Conrad Black

‘I can honestly say that being a United States Senator has been the honor of my life.’ – John Ensign

‘I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense – the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.’ – Francine Pascal

‘Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions – like fear, honor and perceived self-interest.’ – Victor Davis Hanson

‘I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they’ve always gotten killed doing it. And they’ve always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.’ – Sebastian Junger

‘Going to the theater or having the honor of performing in theater reminds you of your humanity in a very different way. It’s a real release and an incredible challenge. But the stage is a dangerous place. You gotta be trained. Plus, crowds like when things go wrong. I think that’s part of the thrill. Anything can happen.’ – Nina Arianda

‘When I won the Tony, I blacked out. I don’t remember anything. I had bullet points jotted down, but I forgot to read half of them. My hands were shaking. It was an insane honor to be recognized in that way.’ – Nina Arianda

‘I find with records, they become what they’re going to become. They take on a power and a direction of their own. Part of making records is to honor that and not try to force it.’ – Emmylou Harris

‘It’s an honor to represent a Latin culture.’ – Gio Gonzalez

‘I don’t take a second for granted of the honor of representing country music.’ – Rodney Atkins

‘Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul’s voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a badge of honor.’ – Paul Broun

‘It seemed like a wonderful honor to have the Film Society of Lincoln Center screen ‘The Films of Raquel Welch.’ It shows a lot of a variety in what they’ve chosen; it kind of runs the gamut of my film career.’ – Raquel Welch

‘Apparently, Daniel Craig said I’d be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.’ – Idris Elba

‘We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, ‘no’ means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.’ – Christine Pelosi

‘I can’t believe I am hosting the Oscars. It’s an honor everyone else said no.’ – Seth MacFarlane

‘It definitely wasn’t like, ‘Hey, I’m going to steal that, and nobody’s going to know.’ The original ‘T.R.O.Y.’ came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it.’ – Lupe Fiasco

‘What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun?’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘I remember when being a ‘a company man’ was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.’ – Maynard Webb

‘It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like ‘Goon Squad’ could win an award like that. It’s such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I’ll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.’ – Jennifer Egan

‘The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.’ – Jennifer Nettles

‘I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive – the power is in love and forgiveness.’ – Dick Gephardt

‘In honor of Surgeon General Koop’s legacy, we should ensure that the position of surgeon general is protected from political interference, funded appropriately and nominated from the ranks of career public health professionals who merit consideration, as is done in the other uniformed services.’ – Richard Carmona

‘I thought, ‘OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I’m playing her old role – no pressure.’ So I went up to Melissa and said, ‘It’s such an honor playing your daughter,’ and she smiled and said, ‘Oh, shut up.’ I thought, ‘Great, a normal person.” – Kara Lindsay

‘This idea that you can’t be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don’t stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It’s possible to do this job with honor and dignity.’ – Matt Taibbi

‘To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are ‘production units,’ and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.’ – Matthew Scully

‘I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something – losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.’ – Trey Gowdy

‘I wrote ‘All You Could Ask For’ to honor a friend, Heidi Armitage, who left us much too soon in 2009 at the age of 43.’ – Mike Greenberg

‘I’ve learned there’s nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance – I wore it like a badge of honor.’ – Becki Newton

‘It’s an amazing thing to hear they’re finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.’ – Tim Hetherington

‘Becoming a ‘Sir’ is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.’ – Edmund Hillary

‘The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.’ – Lincoln Steffens

‘It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.’ – Louis Bacon

‘Michael Phelps is a sporting god among men. It is hard to say if anyone will ever match his accomplishments, but it has been an honor to see him become a legend. He makes me proud of the American sports institution and proud of the sports that get mass attention only every four years.’ – Johnny Weir

‘It’s time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.’ – Madeleine M. Kunin

‘I have found that the more I honored others, the more they honored me and the more fulfilling my career became. In the business arena, I have been surrounded by people with awesome skills. The difference between good and great is determined by the mindset you choose to bring to the work. The concept of honor should be part of that mindset.’ – Douglas Conant

‘Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him… the better off we all are.’ – Edward Snowden

‘I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don’t really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don’t see it having to do with anything other than them making money.’ – Axl Rose

‘God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.’ – Jackson Katz

‘A Western woman is not her brother’s or her father’s property. She’s just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in a Muslim family, the honor of the man is between the legs of a woman.’ – Ayaan Hirsi Ali

‘I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don’t always translate to English.’ – Laura Bailey

‘It’s an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it’s so easy to use.’ – Lance Gross

‘The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.’ – Helen Thomas

‘It’s just incredible how people come up to me and say, ‘Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.’ It’s truly an honor.’ – Gabby Douglas

‘You never get the role you have worked so hard for, but the dream role, the one who gives you joy, money and maybe even honor, that one just falls into your lap.’ – Michael Wincott

‘I get sort of short with people and start grumbling and clearing my throat – in honor of my father – when I’m impatient. It’s very charming.’ – Maria Bamford

‘Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.’ – Bill Cobbs

‘The United States of America was formed to honor the word of God.’ – Rafael Cruz

‘I love ‘Call of Duty;’ I’m a huge fan, but I started off with ‘Medal of Honor’ and I stuck with what I knew. I never got into the online play with people, across the world, across the country.’ – Mehcad Brooks

‘I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM’s 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.’ – Anne Sweeney

‘The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.’ – Joel Osteen

‘Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you’re not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it’s a ‘cool’ soreness. A badge of honor.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.’ – Charlie Pierce

‘Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.’ – Marian Wright Edelman

‘I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s foibles and faults. I think that we do no good to ourselves and do no honor to him by pretending that he did not fail, that he did not wrestle greatly and, at times, surrender to his own sins and his own faults and failures.’ – Michael Eric Dyson

‘If we want our daughters to honor their bodies, they need to hear us honor ours, no matter what size or shape we are, no matter what scars or sags we see in that mirror.’ – Regina Brett

‘It’s not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody’s an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton’s an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.’ – Patti LuPone

‘The nice thing about ‘Futurama’ for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction – although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.’ – Matt Groening

‘I know that God gave me the blessing to use, to bring honor and glory to Him, and to use to impact the lives of people.’ – Lee Haney

‘My manager introduced me to the ‘Rise to Honor’ team. I was curious about what it took to be involved in video games, a completely new form of entertainment to me.’ – Jet Li

‘A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies – they’re movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie ‘Marooned’ over and over when I was a kid.’ – Alfonso Cuaron

‘I have a big ego, but I don’t buy into it. I can’t live off the ego. It’s an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It’s not something I earned.’ – Steven Tyler

‘My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.’ – Lincoln Steffens

‘Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling – the world’s oldest sport – remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.’ – Dan Gable

‘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

‘The thing about boxers is that there’s respect there. You beat me, and I may not like it, but you know what, deep down inside, I respect you. And that’s the code of honor.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘When you – when you become the manager of a major league team, particularly the Dodgers, to me, that’s a privilege and an honor. No matter where you go or what you do, you represent that position that you have. And you represent that organization that gave you the opportunity to be doing what you’re doing.’ – Tommy Lasorda

‘My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.’ – Jesmyn Ward

‘I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It’s an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I’m also a teenager. I don’t get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.’ – Nathan Kress

‘Christians are not in bondage to do things as the world does, and moreover, the traditions and rudiments of men are not necessary to honor God.’ – Monica Johnson

‘It’s an honor to stand for God, and if we want to know where we should be standing, the red letters in the Bible will never steer us wrong.’ – Monica Johnson

‘Praying in Jesus’ name makes the distinction that all glory and honor belong to Christ, who is one with God the Father.’ – Monica Johnson

‘The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.’ – Aberjhani

‘I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn’t use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once – an honor.’ – Henry Rollins

‘It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it’s the kind of thing that makes me feel like – even as it’s been bestowed upon me – I must continue to live up to what it means… Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.’ – Natasha Trethewey

‘I think that no matter whether you’re Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it’s like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.’ – Robert Osborne

‘There are some designers who flash and burn – Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don’t think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition.’ – Suzy Menkes

”Mariah’ was the first series-regular role for me, and that really came about because of ‘Secret Honor.’ That really was a direct result of that. Because now I had an agent and was submitted for that part, for James Malone. And… I was the casting director’s first choice for James Malone.’ – Philip Baker Hall

‘It’s a great honor to me to be named to the Hall of Fame. It’s very hard for me to even imagine that I would ever be elected to it.’ – Red Faber

‘If we look upon fulfilling of assignments as building the kingdom of God and as being an opportunity as well as a privilege and an honor, then assignments and challenges should certainly be given to every member of the quorum.’ – James E. Faust

‘Young women should realize that young men they date will not honor and respect them if they have been involved in moral transgression.’ – James E. Faust

‘My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people who had risked their lives, their fortunes, and their worldly honor to defend the rights and prerogatives of those who were powerless to defend themselves.’ – Thomas Steinbeck

‘To honor the legacy of veterans and the democratic principles they fought for, I am glad that I introduced the Korean War Veterans Recognition Act which was enacted in 2009.’ – Charles B. Rangel

‘There’s no doubt West Point impacted who I am… It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it’s the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.’ – Mike Pompeo

‘Unfortunately, I don’t look as Latin as I am. I get called a white guy a lot, but I am very proud of my heritage. I try my hardest to bring honor to my Mexican roots. Latin people are very passionate and loyal, and I will always remember who I am and where I come from.’ – Ryan Guzman

‘I just want to say what a tremendous honor it is to be on a show like ‘The Newsroom.’ I’ve always dreamed of being on something this important and being on a show that really resonates with a lot of very, very intelligent people in the world, and I’ve gained such a loyal fan base.’ – Terry Crews

‘Being a role model is cool and a great honor. I’m grateful to be considered one and will live up to that title by encouraging kids to eat their Wheaties and brush their teeth often.’ – Jennette McCurdy

‘I would love to have the honor to get to work with Meryl Streep. I love her and I love her work.’ – Bailee Madison

‘I want the kids who watch ‘One Tree Hill’ to know that it’s all pretend, and that the person at the core of that character values morals, honor and things like that. You want to inspire them to look beyond what is superficial and try to find that greater thing.’ – Hilarie Burton

‘I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.’ – Alice Walker

‘I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you’re interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may – and from my experience probably will – protest your portrait of them.’ – Rosemary Mahoney

‘Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.’ – Jane Leavy

‘The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.’ – Daryl Hall

‘When you learn that you inspired someone, it’s a huge honor.’ – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

‘When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.’ – F. W. de Klerk

‘When I think about my MVP season, I will also think about the loss to Golden State. But winning the award as Most Valuable Player of the NBA is just a huge honor. I didn’t really realize how big it was until Mark Cuban had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony.’ – Dirk Nowitzki

‘The first ‘Monsters, Inc.’ represents starting at Pixar for me, I have a special place in my heart for it. So to be able to tell a story with those ideas is an honor.’ – Dan Scanlon

‘I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both officers. My father was a General in the Air Force. My brother and I were both in the Army. I’ve always felt a kinship with soldiers; I think it’s possible to support the warrior and be against the war.’ – Kris Kristofferson

‘The entire political system is contrary to everything a feminine heart stands for. It lacks inclusion. It lacks tenderness toward children. It lacks honor for relationships. It lacks reverence for the earth. It lacks love. And without those things, the feminine psyche disconnects.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for – presidential medal of honor.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, there’s actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those guys that do it, that’s their job, and they follow a certain code of conduct in doing it.’ – Tom Glavine

‘It’s funny, because when I went down to the combine for the interviews with teams, Charles Haley is the name that came up a lot as a comparison to the way I play. A lot of people said that I reminded them of him, and that’s a great honor.’ – Justin Tuck

‘Keep your eyes peeled: Honor’s the label to watch. It’s quickly becoming a serious celebrity favorite – just ask fans Kirsten Dunst and Kelly Osbourne.’ – Brad Goreski

‘The best way to honor someone who has passed is to live.’ – Marvin Sapp

‘My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want people to see a good protagonist struggle against serious odds and do so with courage and honor and integrity.’ – Brad Thor

‘I joined the Wildlife Conservation Society, working there, in 1995, but I started working with them as a student in 1991. I was appointed as a teaching assistant at my university because I accomplished with honor.’ – Corneille Ewango

‘The Labor Department’s Hall of Honor recognizes men and women – like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller and the Workers of the Memphis Sanitation Strike – who have made invaluable contributions to the welfare of American workers.’ – Tom Perez

‘Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.’ – Paul Bloom

‘I think so much of the horror film is about our primal instincts, and our primal instincts are not just towards violence. It’s also towards sex. I feel like horror movies, as much as they’re about violence, they’re also about sex. It’s about our instincts, so in that regard, it’s crucial that you honor both of those things.’ – Drew Goddard

‘When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women’s lives. It’s what they talked about most.’ – Drew Gilpin Faust

‘There are aspects of love that I once undervalued. Kindness. Having a sort of honor when love is on the table.’ – Susan Minot

‘The way Hollywood works, you’re never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.’ – Paul Dano

‘The 2013 Boston Marathon was, for me, a milestone. A bucket list event that was supposed to be my last marathon until my next big milestone, turning 50. But I couldn’t leave marathoning on a memory like that, so I am running this year to honor everyone in the running community and those unsung heroes from April 15, 2013.’ – Summer Sanders

‘Boston is the cream of the crop of the marathon world. It has such history that you feel such honor just being a part of it. All the other races have pacers to get you to a Boston qualifying time.’ – Summer Sanders

‘There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won’t be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did. He made my job as a catcher so much easier. Mariano is a special person and obviously a special player.’ – Jorge Posada

‘South Jersey is home to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, one of the finest military installations in the world, and it was my honor to represent the base and all of those who serve there.’ – Jon Runyan

‘Anytime someone uses one of my songs for anything – a ceremony or a sacred moment – that, to me, is a high honor. I’m proud of the song at that point because I’m trying to write something for humans – whichever humans want to get on board and put this in their soundtrack to their soul’s development or spiritual lives.’ – Jason Mraz

‘There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won’t be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did.’ – Jorge Posada

‘I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.’ – Keith Coogan

‘Since becoming mayor in 2009, Julian has worked tirelessly to pursue policies that honor the aspirations of the people he represents. I’m proud that my brother has achieved his dreams, but I’m even more proud of the work he’s done to help others achieve theirs.’ – Joaquin Castro

‘It’s an honor when someone writes for you. That means they can hear your voice in their head.’ – Christopher Mintz-Plasse

‘It’s an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.’ – Malala Yousafzai

”Honor in the Dust’ is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.’ – Candice Millard

‘I’ll spend time playing ‘Call of Duty’ and ‘Medal of Honor.” – Kevin Dillon

‘I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.’ – Rigoberta Menchu

‘To go from hating the way I looked to being a ‘Cosmo’ centerfold is a profound honor.’ – Adam Richman

‘I first saw ‘The Dinner Party’ in 2007 at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City. While perusing the Heritage Panels, which honor 999 women who have made important contributions to Western history, I came upon the names of two sisters, Sarah and Angelina Grimke.’ – Sue Monk Kidd

‘If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you’re just grinding up hamburger at McDonald’s, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.’ – Bryan Fuller

‘Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It’s an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it’s never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.’ – Laura Osnes

‘Who was Amanda Knox? Was she a fresh-faced honor student from Seattle who met anyone’s definition of an all-American girl – attractive, athletic, smart, hard-working, adventuresome, in love with languages and travel? Or was her pretty face a mask, a duplicitous cover for a depraved soul?’ – Tina Brown

‘Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives to European religious beliefs. Some of the results can never be undone. We try to honor what is left.’ – Todd Rundgren

‘Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me.’ – Dave Camp

‘I’ll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.’ – Linda Ronstadt

‘The Washington Redskin fan base represents honor, represents respect, represents pride.’ – Daniel Snyder

‘We’re told that you can have a relationship with Jesus, but most Christians don’t experience Jesus personally like that. They just don’t. We honor Him. We respect Him. We worship Him. We don’t experience Him and His personality like we do the people we love the most in our lives.’ – John Eldredge

‘It is by God’s grace and provision that Hobby Lobby has endured. Therefore, we seek to honor God by operating the company in a manner consistent with biblical principles.’ – David Green

‘I’ve had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.’ – Sevyn Streeter

‘The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that’s not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that’s the case with the prize for African leadership as well.’ – Mo Ibrahim

‘Most of my training at graduate school was geared towards drama, so I feel good about it, and I can do it, but it requires a lot more work from me. I feel like with drama… well, with all acting, really, you need to honor the truth of the situation.’ – Andrea Anders

‘When you’re playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.’ – Lorraine Toussaint

‘In 2005, I had the great honor of playing Shailene Woodley’s mother in ‘Felicity: An American Girl Adventure.’ I was immediately impressed by her work ethic, both on and off set.’ – Marcia Gay Harden

‘I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.’ – Jim Webb

‘The name ‘The Beach Boys’ is controlled by Brother Records Inc., which was founded by the original members of the Beach Boys and whose sole shareholders voted over a decade ago to grant me an exclusive license to tour as ‘The Beach Boys.’ With it, I’ve felt a great responsibility to uphold, honor and further our legacy.’ – Mike Love

‘My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.’ – Dale T. Mortensen

‘It is a great honor to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This is a wonderful experience for my wife Betty and me. We received congratulations by email, phone and post, many from old friends we had not seen for some time.’ – Willard Boyle

‘It’s funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in ‘Madden,’ and now to see myself in the game, it’s an honor.’ – Gaines Adams

‘I talked to some vets in L.A. about what they go through and do they think about their experiences a lot. I got a wide array of answers. Some people get very emotional, which is understandable. Two of my best friends growing up are in the armed services, and getting to represent those guys was a big honor for me.’ – Austin Stowell

‘Sisters, if you got a good man, honor him.’ – Mo’Nique

‘I think, in a lot of places, the solar panels are a badge of honor; they’re trendy. If you go to Hawaii or Japan, people even install fake solar panels because it’s cool and it’s popular. And so I think solar panels have gotten a lot more attractive. They’re sleek, black, they look good on a roof.’ – Lynn Jurich

‘The term ‘steampunk’ itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like ‘Big Bang’ in cosmology, the diss became the standard.’ – Paul Di Filippo

‘I think it’s fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.’ – John O’Keefe

‘I’m very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That’s my greatest honor, and I couldn’t do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That’s very meaningful.’ – Robert H. Schuller

‘Oh, you know what, it’s an honor to be mentioned in the company of those that might lead our country forward after President Obama.’ – Martin O’Malley

‘I hang out and sign records for an hour or two hours every night, and I like to hear as many people’s stories as I can, because if somebody wants to share their story with me, I want to honor that.’ – John Darnielle

‘It is an honor for me to take part in Canon’s Project Imagin8ion, partnering with a brand that is empowering young filmmakers and is at the forefront of technology.’ – Bryce Dallas Howard

‘I don’t aspire to just play things that are like me. Whether the accent is Taiwanese or British or Canadian – that is the very craft in which I was trained. It is my absolute privilege and honor to do that.’ – Constance Wu

‘The Rough Riders brought honor to San Antonio by winning battles in Cuba throughout the summer of 1898, and Roosevelt became a Texas folk hero overnight.’ – Douglas Brinkley

‘Roman Polanski is one of my favorite filmmakers, and John Phillips one of my favorite songwriters. I had the honor to meet each of these men and was almost giddy to be blessed with the chance to tell each artist what his work meant has to me.’ – Allison Anders

‘Obviously it’s a thrill to direct a ‘Jurassic Park’ film, and it’s a great honor.’ – Colin Trevorrow

‘Just as I never liked bumper stickers – even though I do brake for animals, and if I had a kid, she would definitely be an honor student – I don’t like the idea of expressing my views through social-media-controlled rainbow-or-anything-else-ification.’ – Meghan Daum

‘Being taken down a few pegs is humbling. Knowing that life is not easy or fair is humbling. Receiving a great honor – well, that would be called an honor.’ – Meghan Daum

‘Besides Spiderman and Batman, ‘The Flash’ has, hands down, the best villains. You could do a TV show about The Rogues, and there’s enough depth and interest and oddly honor amongst those characters that I think people will watch that show.’ – Andrew Kreisberg

‘It’s truly an honor to get to write Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman and all those great people, but when you can take something that’s not well thought of and make it something that people do think highly of, that’s much more gratifying, I think.’ – Andrew Kreisberg

‘Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.’ – David Horsey

‘What happens if you are the last (the very, very last) of your species, and you die – and humans notice? We live, increasingly, at a time when extinctions are recorded, remembered, and the last animal (or plant) in its line, by virtue of its being last, becomes a kind of celebrity. Its finality becomes a thing to honor.’ – Robert Krulwich

‘Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry’s expressiveness.’ – Billy Collins

‘It’s almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my early teens when ‘The Magic Barrel’ was published and I first read it.’ – Deborah Eisenberg

‘It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.’ – Ada Yonath

‘It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying.’ – Michael Spence

‘I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By that, I mean a hero who is believed by all to be a villain but who, in the end, is introduced as a man of great honor with a long list of decorations.’ – Preston Sturges

‘Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor the brave and independent man – the man of stainless integrity, of will and intellectual force.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘The Catholics of Maryland were the first people on the new continent to declare universal religious toleration. Let this be remembered to their eternal honor.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘It’s an honor to win the Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Year award.’ – Peter Uihlein

‘I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.’ – Aaron Lazar

‘It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.’ – Aaron Lazar

‘We’re a nation of immigrants – there’s no question about that. But we’re also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.’ – Dan Webster

‘When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work ’cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.’ – Patricia McBride

‘I have such respect for… the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it’s not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.’ – Patricia McBride

‘I shoot a lot of film – that’s one of the things I try to do, and it’s one of the things I learned how to do with Robert De Niro on ‘Men of Honor.” – George Tillman, Jr.

‘When I was working on ‘Men of Honor’ with Robert De Niro, there’s a pipe that he has in the movie, and it took us about six weeks to find the right pipe for him to use and feel comfortable with. It was a great choice, because it was really about what worked with the camera at that time.’ – George Tillman, Jr.

‘I come from a law enforcement family. My grandfather, William J. Comey, was a police officer. Pop Comey is one of my heroes. I have a picture of him on my wall in my office at the FBI, reminding me of the legacy I’ve inherited and that I must honor.’ – James Comey

‘Plato said that virtue has no master. If a person does not honor this principle and rejoice in it, but is purchasable for money, he creates many masters for himself.’ – Apollonius of Tyana

‘I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.’ – Elijah Parish Lovejoy

‘I loved creating a series about the four Cabot sisters, who were not content to let their destinies be dictated to them. In ‘The Trouble With Honor,’ this desire became especially urgent when the sisters were faced with the prospect of losing their place in society. Eldest sister Honor led the charge. They were undaunted!’ – Julia London

‘Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.’ – Ferid Murad

‘The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting.’ – Edward Hirsch

‘Poetry is a form of necessary speech… I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.’ – Edward Hirsch

‘Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel – there are certain just spectacular landmarks – it’s an honor; it’s really an honor.’ – Donald Trump

‘We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the United States in our history, bar none – including President Lincoln.’ – Nigel Hamilton

‘A thoughtful piece of criticism by somebody who understands the context of what you are doing is a tremendous gift and honor to read, even if they don’t completely embrace your work.’ – Jon Favreau

‘I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.’ – Sheldon Lee Glashow

‘It’s a wonderful honor to win an Ignobel Prize.’ – Sheldon Lee Glashow

‘Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn’t always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.’ – Ted Cruz

‘I love traveling around and talking to women in groups like the Girl Scouts, and being able to work with them is such an honor. For me, it’s always about working really hard and being able to help other people, which is what I’ve done with both of my books.’ – Katherine Schwarzenegger

‘I have received the greatest honor in my life – and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.’ – Lars Onsager

‘James Garner was a gift to our business and an example of honesty and pure class. It was an honor to have worked beside him and receive his bear hugs every day.’ – Kaley Cuoco

‘Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.’ – Taya Kyle

‘Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think that, at a less smiling moment, he had the honor to be adopted by America, and whose blood, exertions, and affections will in her good times, as they have been in her worst, be entirely at her service.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘It took me a long time to learn how to be brave enough to put myself out there and try everything, no matter how strange or silly. If I can impart that same wisdom to other folks – no matter what age – it would be an honor.’ – Alethea Kontis

‘Americans honor and respect each other’s faith, and we honor those that choose to have no faith.’ – James Lankford

‘The vast majority of Americans believe you don’t discriminate. You don’t. We honor each other. We don’t all see life the same way. We don’t. We’re Americans.’ – James Lankford

‘Not many artists or bands go platinum every year, from what people have told me, so it’s an honor to have so many fans. A million people, that’s a lot of people! Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, and Justin Timberlake sell a few million, and so hopefully I’ll make my way up to that.’ – Phillip Phillips

‘While the Bible’s account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation. Likewise, our future full-size evangelistic Noah’s Ark will honor the Bible as God’s word and not treat it as a pagan fable.’ – Ken Ham

‘I hope with all my heart and soul that every young man who receives the priesthood will honor that priesthood and be true to the trust which is conveyed when it is conferred. May each of us who holds the priesthood of God know what he believes.’ – Thomas S. Monson

‘Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as ‘honor.’ It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.’ – Edmund Morgan

‘On behalf of the entire Lionsgate team, it is a tremendous honor and deeply humbling to join the elite group of recipients previously honored with the Milestone Award.’ – Jon Feltheimer

‘I am always a little surprised when anyone sees anything I make, so being nominated for the Oscar is beyond amazing – what a tremendous honor.’ – Joshua Oppenheimer

‘For me, public service is an honor, and I have the ultimate respect for the rule of law.’ – Brian Sandoval

‘Let us be bold enough and free enough to follow the great examples – the men of good will and honor who put aside little ways and petty hatreds to build the American dream.’ – Stephen Vincent Benet

‘Portsmouth has the honor, I believe, of establishing the first recorded pauper workhouse – though not in connection with her poets, as might naturally be supposed.’ – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

‘Even if a sense of honor and duty were not the primary motivating factors in the Warren Commission’s work, simple self-interest would naturally have induced its members not to try to cover up the existence of a conspiracy if, in fact, they found one.’ – Vincent Bugliosi

‘The promise I’ve tried to honor my entire career, that the rule of law and the design of the founders, right, the oversight of courts and the oversight of Congress will be at the heart of what the FBI does.’ – James Comey

‘I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.’ – Cheryl Mills

‘I am a woman and, second, I have been to war. I am a combat veteran. This is not a war on women, and anytime Democrats use the word ‘war,’ they need to do it to honor our servicemen and women.’ – Joni Ernst

‘Being the keynote speaker at the convention this year is an honor I don’t take lightly. I know I’ve got some big shoes to fill. Two conventions ago, the keynote speaker was a guy named Barack Obama.’ – Julian Castro

‘America will honor our treaty obligations.’ – John R. Allen

‘You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.’ – Joe Biden

‘I was thrilled and amazed when I found out we won the Nobel Prize. The dedicated and talented women and men of the COBE team collaborated to produce the science results being recognized. This is truly such a rare and special honor.’ – John C. Mather

‘After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn’t honor their promises to the people.’ – Edward C. Prescott

‘When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did for ‘Looney Tunes’ and watching Robin Williams record voice-over for the genie in ‘Aladdin.’ It always seemed to be a major honor – something you have to earn. Like people trust you when they want to have you there without seeing you.’ – Jenny Slate

‘The Buckeye Build will have a lasting impact on Cleveland, and it is an honor to be a part of it.’ – Rob Portman

‘No one remembers how the American people responded day-to-day, week-to-week, or month-to-month about the decisions that Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower made during the most dangerous decades in American and world history. But we know now that they did what was right, and we honor them for it.’ – Donna Brazile

‘I thank Secretary Clinton and her team for recommending me to serve as the permanent chair of the 2016 Democratic National Convention. It is an honor for me and the people of Ohio. I am happy to serve and look forward to a great convention and our ongoing efforts as we work together for a strong party and a successful election.’ – Marcia Fudge

‘It is a very humbling honor to be selected as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.’ – Jerry Reinsdorf

‘Making the Hall of Fame has long been considered the top individual honor that one can achieve in any sport, but for me, I feel it is a culmination of all the input and effort afforded me from so many other people over the years that put me in this position today.’ – Jerry Reinsdorf

‘It’s said that you can tell a lot about someone by who opposes them. In the case of liberal pundit Bill Maher – a man who called America’s actions cowardly in the wake of 9/11 and who mocked WWII veterans who wanted to visit the monument built in their honor – I wear his disapproval of me as a badge of honor.’ – Blake Farenthold

‘We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger – or this week in San Bernardino by fear – and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.’ – Elizabeth Esty

‘We know there isn’t anything we can say or do that will bring their loved one back. What we can do is support them and honor their sacrifice by doing everything we can, every day, to make our communities stronger and our nation better so that we may be a people worthy of their sacrifices.’ – Chris Gibson

‘Serving the people of Arkansas’ 2nd District is the honor of a lifetime, and I’m grateful for the opportunity I have been given by my fellow Arkansans.’ – Tim Griffin

‘Working at the White House is an honor for any preacher’s kid from Magnolia, but the issue is jobs.’ – Tim Griffin

‘When they were working on the movie ‘Lone Survivor,’ all I cared about was that it was done right to honor all of the guys.’ – Marcus Luttrell

‘My greatest honor was to serve my country.’ – Marcus Luttrell

‘Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.’ – Loni Love

‘Rattigan’s world demanded unwavering trust in principles, loyalty, and virtue. At the time of this play – Rattigan was writing this play in 1947 about an incident that took place in 1914 – should a boy say he didn’t do something, his father would believe him; a British father would take the defense of his son’s honor to his grave.’ – Roger Rees

‘Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I’ll tell you what these young kids have: They have a natural authority in Shakespeare. They feel a right to do it. And once they honor the humanity of it, the rhythm of the verse comes with it.’ – Roger Rees

‘Armed Forces Day on May 21, and the Memorial Day weekend that follows, is a time to honor, remember and recognize those who serve and have served our country, as well as those who have died in service. As we reflect, let’s not forget the many sacrifices made at home as well in support of our men and women in uniform.’ – Chuck Norris

‘It’s such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?’ – Venus Williams

‘The – I don’t want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I’ve done much more.’ – Nadia Comaneci

‘I’ve gathered some of my close musical and comedian friends, and we’re going to see if we can’t bring a few laughs to these soldiers, raise some money, and hopefully lift their spirits. I consider it an honor and a privilege to give back however I can for the many sacrifices of these incredibly brave men and women.’ – Ron White

‘It’s like, whenever I do any kind of cover, if it’s a jazz piece or pop cover, I want to honor the original and make sure that the bulk and the juice of what makes that so great is there, but take it to a different place.’ – Gretchen Parlato

‘I’ve always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn’t use it anymore.’ – Jon Huntsman, Sr.

‘I think the history of the world suggests if one studies the Romans, and one studies the early Greeks, and one studies the history of the world, they all eventually falter if they don’t come back to the basic aspect of integrity and honor and feelings of love one for another.’ – Jon Huntsman, Sr.

‘Every June, Gypsies come in caravans from all over Europe to honor Django Reinhardt at a festival in Samois-sur-Seine. When I was little, I started hanging out with them. They fascinated me – they really, literally, live in the moment. They take every day as if it’s their last.’ – Cyrille Aimee

‘For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It’s a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.’ – Randi Weingarten

‘I swim for myself. I love it, I have fun, and just representing my country is the greatest honor I could ever have.’ – Simone Manuel

‘It is a great honor to become Executive Producer of ‘Frontline.’ David Fanning’s mentorship and partnership over the past fifteen years has been extraordinary. I am inspired by his legacy and honored to guide ‘Frontline’s future.’ – Raney Aronson-Rath

‘It is certainly a most tremendous and unprecedented honor and distinction that I have received from Pittsburgh. Let us hope that it is not too late in my case to be of value to American art in something that I may yet possibly do from this encouragement.’ – Winslow Homer

‘It was a really big deal to become an American citizen the right way. You have to work really hard, and it is such an honor to be able to say that.’ – Camila Alves

‘When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA – not really committed to one place.’ – T. J. Perkins

‘Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?’ – Matt Bevin

‘It’s an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.’ – Zac Brown

‘Japan and Hawaii enjoy a special connection, and I want to honor this enduring relationship.’ – David Ige

‘My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.’ – Burgess Owens

‘It’s a great honor to be an Under Armour All-American and to follow in the fast-growing tradition of this game. It’s a great opportunity to spend the New Year in Florida, which is going to be a little warmer than Buffalo.’ – Chad Kelly

‘The captain thing was really an honor, and it was really flattering for me. It was really something that I didn’t expect, and I would say that was the highlight of my career so far, being elected captain by my peers.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘My father started me in football. So what better way is there to honor him than to wear his last name on my back and make him proud?’ – Stefon Diggs

‘All over the Middle East, we face difficult challenges: the ongoing tragedy in Syria, the instability in Iraq, and the jihadist terrorism which dares to speak in the name of Islam, brings so many to seek refuge. The Hashemite Kingdom is facing all these challenges with honor, with dignity, and with great national and human solidarity.’ – Reuven Rivlin

‘I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music.’ – Irvin Mayfield

‘At the very least, noir offers an alternate reality – moments of real passion, a bleak code of honor, and a need for freedom amid corruption. At its best, noir offers a map of subversion.’ – Margo Jefferson

‘Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it’s an honor. It’s just an honor to be a comedian.’ – Bob Saget

‘I know there are a lot of tough stories out there about Sinatra, but he was so sweet to Bobby and me. He even had us replace him one night in the main room. He didn’t get Sammy or Dean; he said, ‘I want the kids to do it.’ Man, what an honor.’ – Bill Medley

‘To me, I think when women who have children are fighting overseas, that’s long distance. And that’s very challenging. I really honor those families that do that.’ – Kate Hudson

‘I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.’ – Kate Hudson

‘Since 2000, it’s been a privilege and honor for me to be on the competition committee. And our main focus… is player safety.’ – Jeff Fisher

‘I’m humbled by the honor that President Clinton has done me in nominatinq me as Attorney General of the United States, and I’m going to do my very best to deserve his confidence.’ – Janet Reno

‘I admire law enforcement agents who put their lives on the line to enforce the law while building trust and understanding within a community and around the world. I honor those who seek justice for all the people of this country.’ – Janet Reno

‘One of the pleasing things about science is that we do all climb towards the heavens on the shoulders of our predecessors. Economics, like physics, has its heroes, and the letter ‘H’ that I used in my mathematical equations was not there to honor Sir William Hamilton, but rather Harold Hotelling.’ – Paul Samuelson

‘I have spent my adult life working in American intelligence. It has been quite an honor. Generally well resourced. A global mission. No want of issues. And it was a hell of a ride.’ – Michael Hayden

‘For me, there is a guiding compass that just lives inside of me. Every time I’ve gone against it, something bad has happened. As long as I stay in line and honor it, it has really been life changing.’ – Tyler Perry

‘For a lot of actors, there’s a sort of code of honor around playing something other than yourself, which I just don’t have. I love feeling like I’m – I won’t even say acting out, but performing in some deep seam of my consciousness or my family’s consciousness or my past. That’s really amusing to me.’ – Tilda Swinton

‘A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, ‘As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, the Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office.” – Virgil Goode

‘Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.’ – Michelle Obama

‘My previous 15 years working in the Department of Justice were extraordinarily fulfilling. I love the Department, its people and its mission. I can think of no greater honor than to lead them.’ – Jeff Sessions

‘Kansas is great – and great for America, when, more and more, we honor every human life everywhere.’ – Sam Brownback

‘It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I’ve done my job.’ – Aretha Franklin

‘Whatever you say to yourself about it being just another movie, and you’re going to do the job you always do, it ends up being a ‘Bond’ movie and a sense of what it is to put music to James Bond and to honor the music that exists.’ – Thomas Newman

‘In ‘Windtalkers,’ the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into the cliches of a large-scale war movie, paying homage to all the tired conventions of the genre. But it’s an honor that these cliches don’t deserve.’ – Elvis Mitchell

‘I’m no parasite. I’m a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.’ – Joseph Brodsky

‘I love to cook for people. It’s my honor, honestly. It’s what I have to give.’ – Guy Fieri

‘I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.’ – Jack Keane

‘In many cases, the joy and honor of having a home has lifted people into a spirit of determination to try and achieve a better life for themselves and their families.’ – Mike Gallagher

‘It’s one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around… It’s an honor to be closing it.’ – Aaron Neville

‘I think America is strong enough to fix the problems, grace and honor to D.C. I think energy independence and control spending. We have to go to a balanced budget. Quite frankly, as far as our debt goes, I don’t think you can tax your way out of it. I think people are taxed enough.’ – Ryan Zinke

‘I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette ‘Jagged Little Pill’ album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.’ – Felicity Jones

‘I fully believe that the U.S. has the obligation to honor its debt.’ – Steve Mnuchin

‘Would it be an honor to be bestowed Hall of Fame credentials? Yeah. Does it define me as a person? No.’ – Bill Goldberg

‘As a father and an ex-wrestler, it’s a dream come true. To be able to come back and be included in ‘WWE 2K17,’ it’s a huge honor.’ – Bill Goldberg

‘India was secular even when Muslims hadn’t come here and Christians hadn’t set foot on this soil. It is not as if India became secular after they came. They came with their own modes of worship, and they, too, were given a place of honor and respect. They had the freedom to worship God as per their wish and inclination.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘I firmly believe that the U.S. has to honor its debt.’ – Steve Mnuchin

‘It’s an honor to be presented with an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of my mentor, Mike Mansfield, who worked to strengthen and improve America’s important relationships throughout Asia.’ – Max Baucus

‘Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.’ – Dan Quinn

‘Everybody needs money, but I’m a fighter. For what I make, I’m happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it’s about honor.’ – Rafael dos Anjos

‘Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘It was an honor to be invited to visit Real Madrid’s training ground and meet Raul, Ronaldo, Kaka, and all the other footballers that play for such a successful team.’ – Rey Mysterio

‘I take it seriously that it’s a privilege and honor to be a role model to young girls, both black and white. It’s not something I take lightly.’ – Tamron Hall

‘For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.’ – Fedor Emelianenko

‘It’s an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I’m also immensely grateful for the support I’ve received from Ireland.’ – Walter O’Brien

‘It’s an honor for me to contribute to Houston’s younger generations and show them that ‘smart is cool.” – Walter O’Brien

‘I’m honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team – a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it’s a huge honor for me to be named captain.’ – Daniel Cormier

‘It’s an honor to have been considered for the team, and I hope that in the future I will have the chance to represent my country by playing for U.S.A. Basketball.’ – Kawhi Leonard

‘People fight today for the same fundamental reasons the Greek historian Thucydides identified nearly 2,500 years ago: fear, honor, and interest.’ – H. R. McMaster

‘Being a woman of color, I can truthfully state that I don’t feel safe around those who are sworn to honor and uphold the law.’ – Normani Kordei

‘Having a book published whenever is a huge honor.’ – Adam Silvera

‘The transition from unknown to known-in-publishing has been empowering but also challenging. It’s an honor to know that people actually want to know what I think about certain issues, but I also have to be careful about what I say or, rather, how I say it. The Internet is forever, y’all.’ – Angie Thomas

”Twin Peaks’ is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that’s different. The one thing that I can hang onto.’ – Dana Ashbrook

‘The sun flag of the great Comrade Kim Il Sung and Comrade Kim Jong Il will forever flutter in the van of our revolutionary ranks that display only victory and honor and will always encourage and drive us toward a new victory.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘We wanted Peyton to have a chance to win another Super Bowl. We have a chance to honor him like we did other players that came back. He’s one of the greatest players. In the end. you look for a great football game, and that’s what you hope for.’ – Jim Irsay

‘It was amazing for me to even perform at the Grammys, but to do so alongside Annie Lennox was a truly incredible honor.’ – Hozier

‘We learned that whether or not you support the war, you honor the soldiers that fight.’ – Brad Paisley

‘I wanted to honor my heritage and where I came from and keep the name. It was a tough decision to even change the spelling of it phonetically. I wanted to keep it as close to the original as it can be.’ – Yvonne Strahovski

‘Inarritu’s own nomination for Best Director for ‘Babel’ was the first such honor for a Mexican director.’ – Elvis Mitchell

‘If I have the honor of being confirmed by the Senate, I will make it my highest priority to restore the public’s confidence in the FBI and to re-earn the faith and trust of the American people.’ – Robert Mueller

‘Times change. Context changes. Just because something is old and a ‘part of our history’ shouldn’t mean we are forced to honor it forever.’ – Ryan Holiday

‘Veterans Day is a time to celebrate the men and women who have worn this nation’s uniform and to honor their service.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘People refer to me as part of the MCU, as opposed to just being this actor. Honestly, it’s an honor.’ – Jacob Batalon

‘I learned everything, right or wrong, about honor and love, all those things, when I was a kid watching movies. I learned as much there as I did from my parents or my schooling or anything else.’ – Sydney Pollack

‘I’m very aware of the fact that Broadway musicals being brought to the screen are very few and far between, and it’s important to continue that relationship between Broadway and film. It’s a privilege and an honor for me to be instrumental in some way in keeping that alive.’ – Rob Marshall

‘I think one of the things I’ve learned is that the tone of an organization is set from the top down. And if you have men running an organization that want to honor women, that’s a whole different experience than if they don’t.’ – Gretchen Carlson

‘Half of the equation is men, and right now, unfortunately, men are running the majority of corporations, so we have to make sure that if that is the case, that they are respectful and honor women for their true accomplishments.’ – Gretchen Carlson

‘I have to say I’m all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention.’ – Ann Coulter

‘Throughout my career, I have lived by the principles of personal honor and professional integrity.’ – Stanley A. McChrystal

‘To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.’ – Taylor Sheridan

‘Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes – from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels – and so it’s a real honor that they’ve chosen to announce their imprint with my stories.’ – Jenny Zhang

‘The honor of being able to play Maura is transformative. I’m 70 years old. I should be in a reading room, reading Dickens or something.’ – Jeffrey Tambor

‘Leading the SMU men’s basketball program is an honor and a responsibility that I take very seriously.’ – Larry Brown

‘I’m still going strong. I have been very blessed and still am. I love singing. Obviously, at my age, I don’t tour with as many dates throughout the year as I did in the past. But I do this to honor my father who was also a singer. I still miss him and his encouragement.’ – Johnny Mathis

‘I’m thrilled to be working with the Science Channel. A chance to shine a light on the wonder and exciting possibilities of science with such a smart and talented team is a dream come true for me. It’s very gratifying to me personally, and it’s also a way to honor my family.’ – Nick Sagan

‘If you’re a parent, love your children. If you’re married, honor your spouse instead of looking on the Internet for love in all the wrong places. I’m talking about real relationships, not false intimacies.’ – Delilah

‘I really think the biggest honor, as a comic, is to get roasted by either the Friars Club or the Comedy Central or someone like that. Because it really shows, you know, that you’ve arrived.’ – Lisa Lampanelli

‘A roast is really an honor. If they picked me to be roasted, I’d be the most flattered I’d be in my life. If I could pick some people to roast, I’d pick my heroes, Don Rickles and Howard Stern. Those are the people I’d like to give some honor to.’ – Lisa Lampanelli

‘God puts us in position to do the things we need to, both on and off the track, to honor Him.’ – Michelle Carter

‘Chinese martial artists consider themselves to be gardeners, and it’s an honor for them to take care of this garden, to better it and hand it over to the generations that follow. I think that’s a very important message in a time when personal achievement seems to be the only criteria of success.’ – Wong Kar-wai

‘We must continue to honor America’s commitment to keeping families together and not turn our backs on refugees and asylum seekers.’ – Jimmy Gomez

‘It’s an honor to have kids. It’s a responsibility.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘To be in a position where an organization like the Bulls creates a bust of you that will permanently be displayed in a building like the United Center says it all. It’s hard to put into words because it is such an honor. It’s great to know that something like that will be around forever.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘As a player, NBA All-Star Weekend contains a lot of joy and a lot of excitement. Even with all the hype built into the game, it’s really a special honor to be selected among many great players.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘To be named as one of the finalists for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s Class of 2010 on Friday was a special moment for me. As a player, it’s something that you dream about. It’s an honor that you have to earn based on your career and the respect from your peers around you.’ – Scottie Pippen

‘It’s a terrific honor. To be associated with the number of people who represent the Cradle of Coaches, it’s sort of unreal in a sense.’ – Ara Parseghian

‘You can be brilliant in some ways and despicable in others. You can be a clean, upright, moral individual in your private life who never swears, treats women with respect, and speaks highly of duty and honor – and go out every day and dedicate yourself to a cause that makes the world worse.’ – Alexandra Petri

‘I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It’s an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.’ – John Cho

‘Everyone knows I’m a huge fan of Chris Brown and Justin Timberlake. For me, it would be more than an honor to work with these talented musicians.’ – Maluma

‘It’s an honor, when you’ve been hustling in the business for years, years and years, it doesn’t matter when it comes – you’re just glad it came.’ – Angela Robinson

‘Being a part of the Dark and Lovely family is an honor. As a dark and lovely girl, I love what they stand for, and I love that they make products for women of color.’ – Justine Skye

‘Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.’ – Bill Nelson

‘I have the great privilege and honor of serving as the Founder and President of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, the world’s largest trade association representing the blockchain industry.’ – Perianne Boring

‘It’s cool to be named a Shooting Star and, of course, a big honor. But as to what comes of that, I’m just going to see what comes my way.’ – Max Riemelt

”The Godfather’ illustrated the family values – the reality that it was really a family thing, honor and tradition. It wasn’t just a single-dimension thing.’ – Frank Vincent

‘I spent a few years cutting my teeth in the Midwest; I worked for Ring of Honor, then I went down to Florida and relearned everything there.’ – Seth Rollins

‘As good as that first year in Ring of Honor was, the second year was really, really bad for me. In retrospect, it was great for me, but at the time, it was a tough situation to be in. I didn’t have anyone around to mentor me where I needed to be.’ – Seth Rollins

‘Philadelphia is kind of like a Mecca for professional wrestling, especially the old ECW Arena down in South Philly. That’s the place I always wanted to wrestle growing up, and I got that opportunity when I worked with Ring of Honor.’ – Seth Rollins

‘I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There’s different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.’ – Daniel Bryan

‘Luckily, one of the perks of being an Angel is that I don’t have to go to casting. It’s so nerve-wracking – even the girls who have been in the show year after year still get nervous. The show is seen around the world, so it’s a huge honor to be selected.’ – Lily Aldridge

‘Working with photographer Mario Testino on Bulgari’s 2017 global campaign in Italy was an incredible moment for me. I could see the Vatican from set! I got to play this powerful character during the shoot, and it was such an honor to represent that. My favorite pieces are from the Serpenti collection. It’s distinctly Bulgari – very sexy!’ – Lily Aldridge

‘People use us for their weddings, their university convocations – you become a part of culture. That’s a big part of people’s lives, and it’s actually a really big honor for us. All their memories around that process are stored in Paperless Post.’ – Alexa Hirschfeld

‘It’s an honor to be able to tour with somebody I grew up listening to and somebody I look up to. When you’re around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.’ – G-Eazy

‘To serve in the modern military – or to be the uncle, parent or sibling of one who does – is to treat the necessary service and sacrifice of war with a sacred honor. In my community, we pile into cars and drive hundreds of miles to watch our children’s graduation from basic training.’ – J. D. Vance

‘The Democratic Party has learned from the terrible mistakes of the past. Our platform requires that we honor, fulfill, and strengthen the federal government’s trust responsibility to American Indians. We take this responsibility seriously.’ – Tom Perez

‘We always honor our people when they die; we’ve got to honor them while we’re still alive.’ – Biz Markie

‘My wife was an amazing, amazing person. Sophia’s Heart is an organization that I founded in honor of my wife when she passed away. When she passed away it was a complete shock, and it was disappointment, anger. I felt all those emotions.’ – Danny Gokey

‘Stepping back, just being in my little Stoicism Susan bubble, if what people know you for is bringing light to an issue about bad behavior, about bad stuff going on and laws not being followed and people being treated inappropriately, why wouldn’t I want that? That’s a badge of honor.’ – Susan Fowler

‘I’m privileged to occasionally stand on a table, and people listen to what I say, and in those moments, it’s important to me that I have something to say and that I honor it.’ – Wil Wheaton

‘I know there’ll be comparisons, but I consider it an honor to be compared to Audrey Hepburn. She’s a legend.’ – Catherine Oxenberg

‘Jane Fonda was at the top of my list of women to meet and the only time I felt nervous about interviewing someone. She is one of the most dynamic women I have ever had the honor of talking to.’ – Amanda de Cadenet

‘Growing up, the image I had of Princess Margaret was completely different. I knew that she was a slightly tragic figure, but I didn’t know why. Now, I love her with my all my heart. She was such an amazing person, and getting to ‘know’ her better was an honor.’ – Vanessa Kirby

‘The best way to honor real people when you play them is to try to tell the story of their dynamics and the struggles that they’re dealing with rather than lose sight of the connections and personal relationships, and do a really good job at an accent.’ – Katherine Waterston

‘Growing up as a kid, in elementary and middle school, I was always getting in trouble. Always getting suspended. I got suspended for 90 days for fighting beginning my freshman year, so I missed Homecoming, and that’s when I turned the page. I went on honor roll and had good grades after that. It was the changing point.’ – Tyron Woodley

‘Any honor is an honor. You can’t really say which one is better than the next, but it’s always wonderful when you’re honored by your peers for your work.’ – David Bryan

‘I think it’s amazing that I can go out there and be myself, and the fact that I’m carrying Puerto Rico on my back a little bit is such an honor.’ – Laurie Hernandez

‘I don’t see it as pressure at all. I see it as such an honor to just in some sort of way represent Puerto Rico and Hispanics and all the girls out there.’ – Laurie Hernandez

‘To be able to say, ‘I’m going to be Snow White’ – it’s crazy. It’s an honor.’ – Lily Collins

‘I don’t choose projects according to the idea of being a role model. To be considered as one is definitely an honor.’ – Lily Collins

‘The Schwarzman Scholars is a program that was designed with Tsinghua University. They asked me to do something in honor of their 100th anniversary.’ – Stephen A. Schwarzman

‘It’s an honor to be the only woman in the room a lot of times, but I wish I weren’t the only woman in the room. I still have to think in a calculated way about how to speak and what to speak about.’ – Nancy Dubuc

‘I look at all the ingredients of a film and say, ‘Is this a positive thing that I’m putting into the world? Is there honor and respect in the way the story is being told about them? And would they approve of that?” – Jessica Chastain

‘For me, it was an amazing experience. I saw where my father came from. I was given a royal welcome in El Bireh – they even slaughtered a sheep in my honor.’ – Said Musa

‘Everyone wanted to be eaten. It seems like it’s a badge of honor to have that on your IMDb account when it says, ‘Man No. 2 eaten in ‘Sharknado.” – Ian Ziering

‘I take playing for my country very seriously. It’s a huge honor.’ – Megan Rapinoe

‘What do we do to just rebuild and focus on creating a big and inclusive tent, where we’re focusing on making sure every child gets that fair shot, that every woman gets to compete on a level playing field, that we are true to the core values of our country, and we’re making sure that we honor those values?’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘As a first generation American myself, I know that comprehensive immigration reform is good for our country. I know it will reduce our deficit, grow our economy, reaffirm our values, advance our ideals, and honor our history as a nation of immigrants.’ – Jan Schakowsky

‘It’s always strange to get an honor from people who are the ones that should be honored.’ – Nancy Dubuc

‘I met an internationally esteemed writer at a literary party being given in her honor. She was wearing a beautiful pink, flouncy, frilly dress. I complimented her on it. She said, ‘Ach, it’s my nightgown. I couldn’t decide what else to wear.” – Ali Smith

‘Companies should take advantage of social media’s power to connect, but honor the continued role of media in shaping opinion.’ – Richard Edelman

‘I am glad to see the Confederate battle flag gone from a place of honor at the South Carolina state capitol.’ – Richard Cohen

‘Chairing any Appropriations subcommittee is both a great honor and weighty responsibility.’ – Dick Durbin

‘I am a Tony voter; it is an honor that I take seriously. Each season, I enter the process with a degree of enthusiasm and optimism, which dissipates as I slowly plow through show after show.’ – Lynn Nottage

‘I had a Super Beetle that I restored and painted deep purple in honor of Jimi Hendrix that was stolen. After that, I got a Ford Falcon that had no windshield wipers, so whenever it rained – which, thankfully, in L.A. it doesn’t do very much – I’d have to lean out my driver’s side window like ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective.” – Tamara Taylor

‘I don’t think it’s helpful to go dismantling the past, but you can refuse to honor aspects of it that you don’t believe in anymore.’ – Winnie Byanyima

‘Leadership is so defined by men, and we need to revise that – we need to be able to say that the people we honor are not the conquerors but the peacemakers.’ – Winnie Byanyima

‘I talk all the time about how much I read growing up and how much I love Stephen King and how he impacted my work from a genre perspective, but Pat Conroy wrote some of the most magnificent stories about characters who had to deal with dysfunctional families and try to find a place of honor in their own world and the pain of loss.’ – Julie Plec

‘I’m not an original member, though I’m sort of an original member. I’ve been on a lot of records and took them to great heights. For them to make me the sixth Temptation is quite an honor.’ – Dennis Edwards

‘Performing at Madison Square Garden is a real honor, so we had a lot of fun.’ – Jessica Jung

‘To get to play a man that has broken walls, that’s broken barriers, that’s an honor.’ – Josh Segarra

‘It’s such an honor to just represent the U.S. in the country where my parents immigrated from, and just this whole process has been amazing, and this journey has been so fun and full of so many memories that I will hold on to for the rest of my life.’ – Chloe Kim

‘I think overdesigning comes from a lack of editing. The strongest, most compelling, and most useful things in life are irreducible – love, truth, faith, honor.’ – Mark Parker

‘To be recognized and accepted by my musical peers is truly an honor.’ – Khalid

‘My dad was a Marine, my aunt is still in the Navy, and my grandfathers both served. So, it’s a huge honor for me to represent my country in any way I can.’ – Elana Meyers

‘Being nominated is such a tremendous honor. An Oscar win for me and for the ‘Strong Island’ team would be the cap to an incredible journey. But it would also mean that my brother will not disappear from history.’ – Yance Ford

‘The image of a bedsheet ghost standing all alone in an empty house was something I was obsessed with. I really wanted to make a film about that image, and I was waiting for the right story to come along. When it did, I did my best to honor that image.’ – David Lowery

‘A deep concern of mine is that leaders in the technology sector have not developed a culture that insists upon courage, honor, duty, and humility – what we might call a culture of virtue.’ – Joe Lonsdale

‘I think there’s so much honor and integrity and beauty in being able to be who you are.’ – Sara Bareilles

‘It became really important to me if I was going to write ‘Hummingbird’s Daughter’ to try to do honor to women.’ – Luis Alberto Urrea

‘Nobody is going to love and honor your dreams like yourself. It’s really not looking for someone to be your superhero but for us to save ourselves and to really understand that. I’ve been at the lowest of lowest of my life, and it took that for me to realize that I want to do better and to be better.’ – Karen Civil

‘It’s a real honor to have my stories up on the big silver screen, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. It’s great fun flying out to L.A. for premieres and meeting all the actors and directors.’ – Jim Starlin

‘I’ve been to hundreds of conventions in my career. Sometimes I’m afraid I may get jaded by them. But then, I see a figure in bright colors walking up to me, and I smile. I thank them for reminding me of just how lucky I am to do what I get the honor to do every day of my life.’ – George Perez

‘What’s the best baseball name of all time? Is it Champ Summers? Clyde Kluttz? Razor Shines? Scipio Spinks? Sibby Sisti? Creepy Crespi? Before you answer, consider that Coco Crisp is not even the game’s top Coco, an honor retired by Coco Laboy.’ – Steve Rushin

‘The only way to honor Steve and his legacy and everything he lived for was to try to continue his work and expand on it.’ – Terri Irwin

‘To be invited to the Park – the greatest free Shakespeare festival in the world – is a great honor, and I don’t take it lightly.’ – Phyllida Lloyd

‘At the most fundamental level, it is an honor to serve – at whatever type or size of organization you are privileged to lead, whether it is a for-profit or nonprofit. It is an honor to serve. Starting from that foundation, it is important to have a compelling vision and a comprehensive plan.’ – Alan Mulally

‘It was an honor to serve at Boeing on the 777.’ – Alan Mulally

‘It was a true honor to have represented my country at my first Paralympic Winter Games and proud to bring home gold and silver medals for the U.S.’ – Mike Schultz

‘To be on the world stage carrying our flag and representing the U.S. Paralympic Team is a huge honor.’ – Mike Schultz

‘I have fallen deeply in love with songs – musical theatre songs included – over the years, and this experience has taught me to hear and honor the writer’s voice in my soul.’ – Alice Ripley

‘It is an honor to join my former colleague in Congress, Jim McCrery, and the very talented team at Capitol Counsel.’ – Charles Boustany

‘I love writing songs for other people, and it’s an honor when someone records your songs.’ – Ryan Hurd

‘My father was just a hell of a guy. He had a real strong sense of honor, and he tried to pass that on to me. I like to think that I embrace that.’ – Joe R. Lansdale

‘The thing about Gambit is that he’s a man who knows how to adapt to survive. He plays things by ear, depending on the situation, and never feels obligated to follow the rules, because the only rules that matter are his own sense of honor. Ultimately, that sense of honor includes ‘doing no harm’ – at least, not to the innocent.’ – Marjorie Liu

‘I am so grateful for the service our veterans have given to our country. These men and women put their lives on the line for our safety and security, and we need to honor their service and our commitment to them.’ – Conner Eldridge

‘I am very proud of my public record and the many accomplishments of my office. It has been a tremendous honor to represent the 6th District of Texas for over three decades, but now it is time to step aside and let there be a new voice.’ – Joe Barton

‘It’s an honor to be able to get in the fray and be a strong, mature voice for Coloradans, a voice uncensored and uncontrolled by the permanent political class in Washington.’ – Robert Blaha