Honour Quotes

515 quotes by 397 authors

The throne we honour is the people's choice. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness — Aeschylus
It was a great honour to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. I didn't know they had a caddie division. — Bob Hope
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
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
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
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves. — Aristotle
The word heretic ought to be a term of honour... — Charles Bradlaugh
The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen... follow [and] honour your feelings. — Neale Donald Walsch

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