Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

You are honored by your friends … distinguished by your enemies. I have been very distinguished.

For me, an aspiration is to be respected by my peers, people in the industry.

Soundarya was always respected, and she is looked at in a certain way that I always would like to be looked upon as an actress.

I am very proud to join the Hall of Fame.

It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.

I'd rather be respected than loved.

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

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.

A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

It's always fun to think about winning an award. I thought about winning awards when I was a little girl. Everybody wants to win an award for something.

It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.

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.

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.

Forget about Nobel prizes; they aren't really very important.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Respect is not ever assigned; it's earned.

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

Titles and honor and salutes it is in the power of the supreme authority in many countries to bestow, and it is from no vain or childish instinct that the world in all ages has attached value to these emblems or rewards.

I know my people. They like grandeur. They want us to have respect abroad in the eyes of other countries.