Honour Quotes
515 quotes by 397 authors
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn
— William Shakespeare
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to…
— Ben Jonson
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can…
— Sun Tzu
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A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys…
— Pliny the Elder
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It's definitely an honour and a dream to be able to go out there and have all the people in the stands cheering for you…
— Meghan Agosta-Marciano
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Definitely very proud, very honoured to be Canadian. To be able to represent your country in Canada and win a gold medal on home soil…
— Meghan Agosta-Marciano
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Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which…
— Charles Babbage
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough…
— Humphry Davy
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"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness
— Aeschylus
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It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn't know they had a caddie division.
— Bob Hope
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I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and…
— Laurens van der Post
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It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the…
— Albert Einstein
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Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.
— Aristotle
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The word heretic ought to be a term of honour...
— Charles Bradlaugh
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The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen... follow [and] honour your feelings.
— Neale Donald Walsch
Who Wrote These Honour Quotes
397 authors contributed a total of 515 Honour Quotes, led by these top contributors: