Honour Quotes

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

We, however, place the love of God and His honour above our own and above the acquisition of many regions

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

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

Honour both spirit and form, the sentiment within as well as the symbol without.

If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour.

Honour, cherish and nourish yourself.

The Church will pray to God for the dead. The survivor has honour and glory.

I am a complete mother's boy. I try to do everything with honour, respect and grace because the last thing I would want to do is hurt her.

Do not simplify. Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honour. It means you risked failure.

To be the World Champion in 1981 was a huge honour.

I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.

I have returned many times to honour the valiant men who died...every man who set foot on Omaha Beach was a hero.

Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

Nocht is your fairnes bot ane faiding flour, Nocht is your famous laud and hie honour Bot wind inflat in uther mennis eiris.

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

I make it a point of honour to have a couple of gnomes in my garden as silent testimony to the right of gnome-lovers everywhere to do their own thing without fear of snide remarks.

We must re-grasp the idea of church membership as being the membership of the body of Christ and as the biggest honour which can come man's way in this world.

Although I hold the highest civil honour in the world, I have always regarded my rank and title as a Past Grand Master of Masons the greatest honour that had ever come to me.

Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

Honour always wins, it is inevitable.

The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.

Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.

He loved chivalrye Trouthe and honour, freedom and curteisye.

As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.

The only goal of science is the honour of the human spirit, and a question in number theory is worth a question concerning the system of the world.

Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call.

Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

The honour is overpaid,When he that did the act is commentator.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

In the early 2000s, I was introduced to the noble art of kickboxing, it thrilled me, and I loved it. I loved the honour and the discipline, and I also loved the punching.

I'm a man of honour, a truthful person, a gentleman of absolute morality .

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.

Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.