It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
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.
I don't believe in honors - it bothers me. Honors bother: honors is epaulettes; honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way.
It is better to be honourable than be honoured.
Awards can't be what's important in your life. Because that only affects you in a sense. Life is so much more than that: It's your family and your friends and that sort of thing.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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