Top 100 Quotes About Honour
#1. The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.
Plato
#2. Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
Martin Luther
#3. I dream of an India that is prosperous, strong and caring. An India, that regains a place of honour in the comity of great nations.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
#4. Leaders are not worried about the respect and honour they can be given, but the impacts and influence they can give!
Israelmore Ayivor
#5. Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.
William Wordsworth
#6. The Swedish Academy of Sciences has seen fit, by awarding the Nobel Prize, to honour the method of producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen.
Fritz Haber
#7. It's such an honour being banned in Italy, the mother of sensuality. It's like being asked to straighten your tie in a bordello ... It's ironic that the pictures were removed on the complaint of a cardinal. I regard censorship as a cardinal sin.
Harold Town
#8. Your memory does me more honour than my insignificance deserves.
Charles Dickens
#10. For a nation to be known as warrior is a shame! For a nation to be known as peaceful is an honour! Violence brings shame, killing brings disgrace; peacefulness brings honour, nonviolence brings esteem!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#11. These past couple of years have been about learning to not sabotage myself in a subtler way - for instance, even just by putting moisturiser on when I get out of the shower. Learning to honour myself and believing that I'm worth taking care of.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
#12. It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
Bat For Lashes
#13. Always maintain the attitude of a student. When a person thinks they have finished learning, that is when bitterness and disappointment can set in, as that person will wake up everyday wondering when someone is going to throw a parade in their honour for being so smart.
Nick Offerman
#14. Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
Cecil Frank Powell
#15. If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.
Timothy F. Cahill
#16. The Nobel Prize is without doubt the highest honour, the most coveted honour, which can be bestowed on a scientist.
Charles Glover Barkla
#18. The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.
Alexander Suvorov
#19. Earthly life is a temporary phenomenon only", Jesus said thoughtfully. "Death comes sooner or later to all mortals. It is honour that is the eternal thing. I asked you not about your life, but about your honour and your good name.
Viktor Shel
#20. Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.
Janos Kadar
#21. Everyone has honour and a good name. It is the only sacred thing that every person has.
Viktor Shel
#22. ...spells of incarceration or exile were almost badges of honour for Enlightenment writers.
Kate Berridge
#23. Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#24. Whoever makes an attempt on a man's life, on a man's liberty, on a man's honour inspires us with a feeling of horror in every way analogous to that which the believer experiences when he sees his idol profaned.
Emile Durkheim
#25. Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind,
To follow rule and climb the stately chair.
George Peele
#26. Watson: When do we start?
Holmes: You are not coming.
Watson: Then you are not going. I give you my word of honour - and I never broke it in my life - that I will take a cab straight to the police station and give you away unless you let me share this adventure with you.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#27. As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not (5.3.25-28).
William Shakespeare
#28. And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour:
Anonymous
#29. If the one did not honour his master, and the other did not rejoice in his helper, an (observer), though intelligent, might greatly err about them.
Lao-Tzu
#30. A duel, whether regarded as a ceremony in the cult of honour, or even when reduced in its moral essence to a form of manly sport, demands a perfect singleness of intention, a homicidal austerity of mood. [The duel]
Joseph Conrad
#31. I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .
Silvio Berlusconi
#32. If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world to contradict any person who described me other than I was, although he did it to honour me.
Michel De Montaigne
#33. When God will not use thee in one kind, yet He will in another. A soul that desires to serve and honour Him shall never want opportunity to do it; nor must thou so limit the Holy One of Israel as to think He hath but one way in which He can glorify Himself by thee.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#34. I knew I would be running with so many people watching all over the world because of him. People love Bolt. He has many fans out there because of his great achievements and breaking world records in Olympics. I've done the same and it's a great honour. I'm happy and I'm happy for him.
David Rudisha
#36. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
C.S. Lewis
#37. A cold realisation washed over me. From now on, my master would not always be there to protect and counsel me.
'This is big. Too big,' I said. 'What do I do?'
'You follow your destiny,' Ryoko said. 'As we all do. With honour and courage.
Alison Goodman
#38. Trusting in Christ, we may boldly join in the combat, and enlist ourselves among that disinterested band, who fight not for human ambition, or human praise, but for the honour of our Saviour, and the salvation of men.
John Strachan
#39. I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
Talib Kweli
#40. It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
Baruch Spinoza
#41. Honour is not just a matter of internal good feeling, but also of external behaviour.
Julian Barnes
#42. What I will tell you is that you cannot force yourself to mourn. Sometimes, the best way to honour the dead is to simply keep living.
Samantha Shannon
#43. Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.
James Anthony Froude
#44. Your word is not above the law
If your word of honour is in conflict with the law, then you must break your word and take dishonour upon your name, said Vasishta. That is dharma
Amish Tripathi
#45. There's no honour fighting in the street, there is nothing to gain.
Georges St-Pierre
#46. To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.
Iyanla Vanzant
#47. Be just to everyone and don't look for an honour greater than this!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.
John Newton
#49. A leader whose speech is prepared by others is not a leader; he is just an empty and stupid bottle! Use your own ideas and your own brain; write your own speech, just like Gandhi, Churchill or Nehru! That is indeed a good ethics and a good honour!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.
Mikhail Tal
#51. Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.
Horace
#52. Mr. Tope is again highly entertained, and, having fallen into respectful convulsions of laughter, subsides into a deferential murmur, importing that surely any gentleman would deem it a pleasure and an honour to have his neck broken, in return for such a compliment from such a source.
Charles Dickens
#53. My thesis is that the language of poetic myth anciently current in the Mediterranean and Northern Europe was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honour of the Moon-goddess, or Muse,
Robert Graves
#55. We are as the dead," Sha said. "Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And, when it is necessary, to surrender those lives. When we become what we are, we lose our lives - our names, our family, our homes, and our honour. All that remains is our lord.
Jim Butcher
#56. Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same kind).
Lao-Tzu
#57. Now that he had his way, and all went well, and he had work to do after his heart, and had honour in it, he was courteous to all, and less grim than of old, so that well nigh all hearts were turned to him; and many called him Adanedhel, the Elf-man.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#58. Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.
Ramakrishna
#59. She never forgets a slight, real or imagined. She takes caution for cowardice and dissent for defiance. And she is greedy. Greedy for power, for honour, for love.
George R R Martin
#60. Hurt me?" he asked. "How would you do that? By taking away everything I love? Everything I honour? You're too late, Hannah. Far too late. Fallon already did that."
Claire's terrible feeling suddenly condensed into a heavy, sickening weight. "He took Jesse," she said. "Fallon took Jesse.
Rachel Caine
#61. Are you sure? A man's task is to die with honour, but a woman's task is to endure.
Remittance Girl
#62. Do not fear the enemy, for they can take only your life. Fear the media far more, for they will destroy your honour.
Vo Nguyen Giap
#64. Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.
Nelson Mandela
#65. 23. A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Anonymous
#66. The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#67. It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats.
Murray Walker
#68. Money lost
little lost. Honour lost
much lost. Pluck lost
all lost.
E.W. Hornung
#69. Respect, Honesty, Courage, Rectitude, Loyalty, Honour, Benevolence
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#70. Ah yes.' Peter's tone was scornful. 'And they must always be paid before the poor tradesmen's bills, mustn't they?'
'They must indeed. They are debts of honour.'
'Oh, Mary.' He leant over and kissed me quickly. 'What a lot we'll have to argue about after we're married.
Jennifer Paynter
#71. Yadyatkarma karomi tattadakhilam shambho tavaaraadhanam My Lord Shambo, My Lord Shiva, every act of mine is a prayer in your honour
Amish Tripathi
#72. Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
Archilochus
#73. If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
Mary Astell
#74. The purpose is so important that for it someone must sacrifice more than their life - they must sacrifice their honour and their good name. Are you ready for such a sacrifice?
Viktor Shel
#75. My God! What is this country doing to me? Because it has rejected me, let us consider it coldly, let us watch it lose the honour and its life.
Irene Nemirovsky
#76. Christ counts it his honour, that he is a king of a willing people, and not of slaves. He comes to make you free, not to bring you into bondage, to make you kings, not vassals. None
William Gurnall
#77. Fight for your lord, fight for his honour, but never forget that you were fighting for yourself too.
Elizabeth Chadwick
#78. If you don't have the ambition to be the very best at what you do, then what's the point? If you aim for greatness but keep missing -- fine. At least you had the guts to aim. There's honour in failing that way. But there's nothing honourable about settling for mediocrity.
Benjamin Wood
#79. And let each one of the crowd try and shout it very loud, In honour of an animal of whom you're justly proud, For it's Toad's - great - day!
Kenneth Grahame
#80. Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
G.K. Chesterton
#81. With stones, you can build walls to separate people or build bridges to unite them! Do the second thing in the name of ethics and honour, for the glory of love and goodness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
Samantha Stosur
#83. I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences very sincerely for the great honour they have done me. It is an honour so great that even yet it is difficult for me to believe that it is true.
Ernest Walton
#84. But their fondest thoughts went to the two sons who had brought honour and glory to their ancient name.
W. Somerset Maugham
#85. Freedom, Truth, Honour - you could rattle off a hundred such words and behind every one of them would gather a thousand punks, pompous little farts, waving the banner with one hand and reaching under the table with the other.
Hunter S. Thompson
#86. Perhaps if you were not a foot taller, or quite so broad across the shoulders.'
'It's considerably less than a foot,' said Damen.
'Is it?' said Laurent. 'It feels like more when you argue with me on points of honour.
C.S. Pacat
#87. Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. The passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when He says, 'How can you have faith in Me when you receive honour from one another and do not seek for the honour that comes from the only God?' (cf. Jn. 5:44).
Gregory Palamas
#89. I like the tag of being the world's most expensive player. It's an honour and a privilege.
Alan Shearer
#90. Lord, help me to wait upon my Master. Let me leave all idea of honour to the hour when thou thyself shalt honour me. May thy Holy Spirit make me a lowly and patient worker and waiter!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#91. For me, it's my great honour that many people use blue LEDs or LED lightings now. So, we can contribute to the energy savings for the humans, so I'm very, very happy to contribute to the energy saving issues.
Hiroshi Amano
#92. I'm in love with your honour.
I'm in love with your cheeks.
Bon Iver
#93. A samurai never worries about losing his life. He worries about losing his honour. Being shamed is far worse than losing your life. A samurai is always ready to die - for his lord, for his honour. That's the samurai way
Lesley Downer
#94. Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.
Pastor Maldonado
#95. I may be stupid, as you say, to believe in honour and friendship and loyalty without price. But these are virtues to be cherished, for without them we are no more than beasts roaming the land.
David Gemmell
#96. And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.
Matthew Arnold
#97. Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honourable way - the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason - and you can enforce the peace without any honour at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble.
Gregory David Roberts
#98. I will ensure we honour the instructions the British people have given us. I argued for specific changes in the referendum campaign, I believe in them, I will deliver them.
Michael Gove
#99. Those that look with contempt upon worldly honours shall be recompensed with the honour that cometh from God, which is the true honour.
Matthew Henry
#100. If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,
which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy
how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?
William Shakespeare
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