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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Even when I was playing, I never thought much about the individual honors. I wanted to go to the Super Bowl.

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

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.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

I'm rather cynical about the way the honours system is used, frankly. A whole lot of the honours system is used for political purposes by the government in power.

I'm not one who likes to be honored, to be honest with you. That's never been who I am.