Honour Quotes
515 Honour quotes by 397 unique authors
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If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we're missing it. Our vertical expression…
— Joel Houston
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Life is a whirlwind of many opportunities. Choose to embrace all of them in deepest gratitude. Learn to forgive yourself and honour the heart that…
— Michelle Cruz
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then…
— A. A. Gill
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It is commonly said that the Internet is unique in its ability to spread bad information to large numbers of people, but this is ridiculous,…
— Philip E. Agre
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I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create…
— Frank Bruno
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With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel…
— Laozi
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The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese…
— Winston Churchill
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The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he…
— Aristotle
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All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the best thing we…
— Casey Stoner
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Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
— William Shakespeare
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Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast.
— William Shakespeare
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Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by…
— William Shakespeare
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A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
— William Penn
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But we are so fond of life that we have no leisure to entertain the terror of death. It is a honeymoon with us all…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.
— Unknown Author
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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
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Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
— Ben Jonson
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It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.
— Kevin Rudd
Who Wrote These Honour Quotes
397 authors contributed a total of 515 Honour Quotes, led by these top contributors: