Best Honors Words
220 Honors quotes by 188 unique authors
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Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Returning from the wilderness a man becomes a restorer of order, a preserver. He sees the truth, recognizes his true heir, honors his forbears and…
— Wendell Berry
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Here's an encouraging word for someone tonight - don't think you're not doing what God called you to do just because things don't seem as…
— Lysa TerKeurst
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Christ honors our submission even when our only motivation is obedience.
— Beth Moore
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It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have…
— Ben Jonson
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Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there is also that…
— John Cassian
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Let us cleave... to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For the Scripture says in…
— Pope Clement I
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Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not…
— Ali Akbar Khan
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Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give…
— Socrates
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The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the Commons…
— David Spangler
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Too often we take blessings for granted, like the sun, the air, health, and opportunity. Or we accept favors, honors, and privileges day after day…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Nothing honors God more than a Big Dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish!
— Mark Batterson
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To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they…
— Mark Galli
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I don't like honors. I'm appreciated for the work that I did, and for people who appreciate it, and I notice that other physicists use…
— Richard P. Feynman
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First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God's high regard for the dignity…
— Max Lucado
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[T]he schools, through reliance upon the spur of competition and the bestowing of special honors and prizes, only build up and strengthen the disposition that…
— John Dewey
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[A] truly humble spirit humbles itself as much amid honors as amid insults, acting like the honeybee which makes its honey equally as well from…
— Vincent de Paul
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Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The blessings of stupas are such that they benefit all beings, regardless of their connection and motivation. If one participates in a stupa's construction and…
— Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche
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Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.
— Marcel Proust
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There is no solid satisfaction in any career for a woman like myself. There is no home, no true freedom, no hope, no joy, no…
— Taylor Caldwell
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High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.
— Euripides
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Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.
— Euripides
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