Best Honors Lines
220 Honors quotes by 188 unique authors
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
— Sophocles
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Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the…
— Frank Ocean
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The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances,…
— Richard Pascale
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The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.
— Vance Havner
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I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a…
— Leon Askin
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This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves where we are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything,…
— Criss Jami
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So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so…
— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest eventually taught me…
— Sue Thoele
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What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with…
— William Shakespeare
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The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of…
— Wendell Berry
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The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors…
— Robert Henri
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It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars,…
— John Taylor Gatto
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The appropriate place to really render honors, and to acknowledge the sacrifice that somebody has made is at the gravesite. And it's at the gravesite…
— Brian Whitman
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Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the conditions that brought…
— Jack Kornfield
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If you create and market a product or service through a business that is in alignment with your personality, capitalizes on your history, incorporates your…
— Walt F. J. Goodridge
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I don't like honors. ... I've already got the prize: the prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery,…
— Richard P. Feynman
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When a monarchy gradually transforms itself into a republic, the executive power there preserves titles, honors, respect, and even money long after it has lost…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.
— Ron Fournier
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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
— Confucius
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Individual honors and scoring championships are great, but my No. 1 goal is to win the Stanley Cup.
— Sidney Crosby
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