Belong Quote by Boris Pasternak

Not only should you not accept a prize. You should not try to deserve one either.

— Jean Cocteau

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

— Lord Chesterfield

“In the case of a charity, you must give without any conditions.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.

— Denis Fonvizin

Honour is not given it is earned

— Sarah Moores

Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be…

— Abraham Lincoln

And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth…

— Plato

When merit has been achieved, do not take it to yourself; for if you do not take it to yourself, it shall never be…

— Laozi

I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best…

— George Washington

An ill deed cannot bring honor.

— George Herbert

“To award prizes is to attempt to control the course of another man’s work. It is a bid to have him do what you…

— Robert Henri

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

— Marcel Proust