Commendation Quotes

I wasn’t highly decorated. The highly decorated men are dead.

Man, he deserves a hero cookie. (Selena)

Judge Sarah Frisch is a wonderful woman, and does an excellent job.

I'm immensely proud to have been made a CBE, but I don't ever use the letters after my name unless someone has included them in correspondence.

Bernard King said something great about me? Wow, he's one of the best. I'm definitely honored and very thankful.

I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all.

Awards are like a pat of appreciation from the jury and viewers. It is almost like them saying, 'So, you have done well; we expect you to carry on doing good work.'

I love to honour people and to write positive songs about them.

It's a great honour that someone like Sir Alex Ferguson goes out of his way to mention my name.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Any honor is an honor. You can't really say which one is better than the next, but it's always wonderful when you're honored by your peers for your work.

I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.

You did it! Congratulations! World's best cup of coffee! Great job, everybody! It's great to be here.

I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought. It encourages our business to be competitive in absolutely the wrong way. We're not sportsmen; we're not trying to come in first.

It was very cool to be honored and be acknowledged in that way for the first time ever, being nominated for an Emmy.

An award or an honour from the government is always welcomed any time.

I want to get me one of those titles.

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You’ve just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan says, it’s a pat on the back, so great you’ll take it and then move on.

Established in 2001, the Medal of Valor is our nation's highest public safety award. Officers across the nation are nominated by their peers, but only a handful are selected to receive this honor. Traditionally, this process occurs only once a year.

thou art the best o' the cut-throats

Winning is a different thing, but even being nominated for an award like Filmfare is an honour.

I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.

Nothing so soon the drooping spirits can raise As praises from the men, whom all men praise.

General MacArthur told me, "You represent the American serviceman better than the American serviceman himself."