“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.” InspirationalDoeCharacterWisdomHonorRespectDignityCleverDeservingPossessingHuman DignityGood CharacterPersonal DignityBest Character Author:Aristotle
“Ability is all right but if it is not backed up by honesty and public confidence you will never be a successful person. The best a man can do is to arrive at the top in his chosen profession. I have always maintained that one profession is deserving of as much honor as another provided it is honorable.” IfsMenPersonsCan DoAbilityBusinessSuccessfulHonestyHonorProfessionChosenHonorableDeservingSuccessful Person Author:Will Rogers
“Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.” PeopleRealRealityCareHonorDistinctionI CareObscurityDeserving Author:Thomas Hardy
“Many new years you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them. These virtue, honor, and knowledge alone can merit, alone can produce.” YearsMayVirtueProduceHonorMeritNew YearDeserving Author:Lord Chesterfield
“Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.” WorldWayGivingWealthHonorFortuneWitFollowersDeserving Author:George Chapman
“I've always felt that if I am deserving of the Medal of Honor, there are many, many others who are. I felt a little bad receiving it, so I received it on behalf of the fellows, because there's no such thing as a single-handed war. There's always a support group, and if you didn't have people who supported you, you couldn't fight a war.” PeopleIfsLittlesWarFightingFeltSupportGroupsHonorFellowsReceivingBehalfMedalDeservingSupport GroupsMedal Of Honor Author:Daniel Inouye
“There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature...yes, that's it: just thinking about trees and their indifferent majesty and our love for them teaches us how ridiculous we are - vile parasites squirming on the surface of the earth - and at the same time how deserving of life we can be, when we can honor this beauty that owes us nothing.” ThinkingFirstsFeelingsEarthHumanityWonderTeachTreeHonorSurfaceNostalgiaRidiculousIndifferentOur LoveMajestyDeservingParasitesSense Of WonderInsignificance Author:Muriel Barbery