No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm not one who likes to be honored, to be honest with you. That's never been who I am.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
Without money honor is merely a disease.
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.
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
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