Honour Quotes

No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken.

And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them " A prophet is not without honour save in his own country and in his own house."

Bible

No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Mark Twain

A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient unprofitable or dangerous to do so.

Walter Lippmann

The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honour follows those who flee it.

Anonymous

God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.

Arabic proverb

Fame is something which must be won honour is something which must not be lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours but in deserving them.

Aristotle

Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word.

William Shakespeare

Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.

Margaret Fuller

Remember the son of whom you are because a good name is better than gold or silver

Emmanuel Olawale

There is no honour in battle, Dogalas. Men killing men.....no honour. Honour is doing a noble deed and living to tell about it." He glanced over at him. "Remember that.

Matia ben Ephraim

When you feel weak in spirit, think about the agreements you made with yourself about how to live an honourable life. We all have them, but unfortunately the contracts are often written in invisible ink when they should be signed in blood.

Suzanne Hayes

The 19th century had chosen only to remember the happy warrior. The 20th century only the blood come gargling. Both are essential to any understanding of Trafalgar.

Adam Nicolson

Some steal, earn a lot of money, but lose their honour and become very poor; some work, earn a little money, but gain a good honour and become very rich!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Everyone has honour and a good name. It is the only sacred thing that every person has.

Viktor Shel

Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.

Walter Scott

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

William Shakespeare

Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.

Carsten Jensen

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Honour was like a coat: sometimes one did not have time to put it on.

Adrian Tchaikovsky

You will never see me publicly putting a comic down or trying to get them unbooked. If I have a problem with someone they will know. I try to do what is right and not what is easy. You will never see me make jokes about peoples addictions or cries for help. OR other peoples pain for that matter. I believe in lifting up. Not tearing down. Uplift you fellow man. We were born to love one another and to that end I promise what I do in my life is in the name of love.

Johnny Corn

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

William Shakespeare

The really unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, or anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present — they are real.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Rejection is no badge of honour.

Johnny Rich

Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows.

A.H. Septimius

There is no honour in exploiting people and there is also no honour in exploiting animals! Using people or using animals for our own interests is nothing but an arrogant immorality!

Mehmet Murat ildan

What happens in the dark should not be brought to light.

Habeeb Akande

There is no such thing as phD in swag. Only uni. After learning the principles of swag, one must do their own individual trainibg to increase horizons of their 4 elements of swag. Then comes controlling the swag count that's is released from within.

Batuhan Ibal

I'll be quite for now because I make mistakes too... but once The Perfect Almighty One judges you, there are no excuses.

A Gentlemen

I was thinking about honour. It's a thing that changes doesn't it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years ago we would have had to fight if challenged. Now we'd laugh. There must have been a time when it was rather an awkward question.""Yes. Moral theologians were never able to stop dueling -- it took democracy to do that.""And in the next war, when we are completely democratic, I expect that it will be quite honourable for officers to leave their men behind. It'll be laid down in King's Regulations as their duty-- to keep a cadre going to train new men to take the place of prisoners.""Perhaps men wouldn't take too kindly to being trained by deserters.""Don't you think that they'd respect them more for being fly? I reckon our trouble is that we're in the awkward stage -- like a man challenged to a duel a hundred years ago.

Evelyn Waugh

Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!

Henrik Ibsen

Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his /pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs/, --- and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgement, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure, --- no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your Representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinions.

Edmund Burke

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

Serving others is a high honour in the spiritual realm

Sunday Adelaja

We were the most humiliated people on earth and God gave us honour through Islam. If we ever seek honour through anything else, God will humiliate us again.

Umar ibn Al-Khattab

I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!

Thomas Hardy

I know we are supposed to welcome anyone who vows to protect the kingdom, but really, anyone will do anything for a copper these days, and where pride and promises are saleable, expendable men come very cheap indeed.

Michelle Franklin

Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Self-respect leads to self-discipline and self-discipline paves a way for respect towards others.

Unarine Ramaru

Seek respect not attention.

Ben Bereng

The fact that social media has leveled the playing field doesn't offer you the right to disrespect the elderly

Bernard Kelvin Clive

A mother is an irreplaceable gift that God has given every mankind. Your (a child's) duty is to honour, adore, respect and serve her. Your blessings are tied in how honour she felt.

Wisdom Kwashie Mensah

Love is respect,recognition and honourgiven without expectation.

Theodore Volgoff

You can't be passionate about gratitude and be crippled by ingratitude.

Bamigboye Olurotimi

But it’s a pretense, it’s artificial,” Adelia protested. “Love, honor, respect. When are they ever extended to everyday women? I doubt if that boy actually practices what he’s singing. It’s… it’s a pleasant hypocrisy.”“Oh, I have a high regard for hypocrisy,” the little nun said. “It pays lip service to an ideal which must, therefore, exist. It recognizes that there is a Good. In its own way, it is a token of civilization. You don’t find hypocrisy among the beasts of the field.”“What good does the Good do if it is not adhered to?”“That is what I have been wondering,” Mother Edyve said calmly. “And I have come to the conclusion that perhaps the early Christians wondered it, too, and perhaps that Eleanor, in her fashion, has made a start by setting a brick in a foundation on which, with God’s help, our daughters’ daughters can begin to build a new and better Jerusalem.”“Not in time for Emma,” Adelia said.“No.”Perhaps, Adelia thought drearily, it was only a very old woman who could look hopefully on a single brick laid in a wasteland.

Ariana Franklin

In a country where people are afraid of criticizing the government, many things must be going horrible! In such countries people must know that a society of cowards will always be remembered as a society of honourless people!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Lack of courtesy is an extreme form of disrespect

Khaleel Datay

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one's pleasure, or one's honour if the disclosure of one's pleasure runs counter to one's honour. One lies all one's life long, even, especially, perhaps only, to those who love one. For they alone make us fear for our pleasure and desire their esteem.

Marcel Proust

Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor you will ever receive.

Amit Kalantri

I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I never appear in public with a soiled conscience, a tarnished honor, threadbare scruples, or an insult that I haven't washed away. I'm always immaculately clean, adorned with independence and frankness. I may not cut a stylish figure, but I hold my soul erect. I wear my deeds as ribbons, my wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

Edmond Rostand

A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical honour, of the nation's eternal interests. Thus: not bread at all costs, but honour at all costs.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Serving God brings us to a place of great honour. Putting people in ministry is helping them to find their calling and their place in the body of Christ.

Sunday Adelaja

There is a young abused girl whose recovery is dependent on your willingness to honour your calling as a pastor, social worker, psychologist, etc.

D.S Mashego

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