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

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

To be recognized for the hard work my team and I put into ‚Starboy‘ is an honor.

I hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!

Ability without honor is useless.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‚Huh. It works. It makes sense.‘

Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you’re 52.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

I knew no one who’d ever been in the public eye.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

Get off your horse and drink your milk.

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

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Sometimes, wearing a scarf and a polo coat and no makeup and with a certain attitude of walking, I go shopping or just look at people living. But then, you know, there will be a few teenagers who are kind of sharp, and they’ll say, ‚Hey, just a minute. You know who I think that is?‘ And they’ll start tailing me. And I don’t mind.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I can’t deny that label-support gave me a leg up – though not every successful artist needs it.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.

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

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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.

Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I don’t know why they gave me a knighthood – though it’s very nice of them – but I only ever use the title in the U.S. The Americans insist on it and get offended if I don’t.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

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

I’ve had the honor of speaking at many commencements.