Honour Quotes - Page 10

• Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.

  Bryan Mosley

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

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• For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice.

  Plato

  Plato, Men, Dwelling

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic

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• The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

  Plato

  Plato, Parent, Noble

  Plato (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated)”, p.974, Delphi Classics

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• If knowledge had no other merit than to make the ignorant fear and respect you, and scholars love and honour you, this would be good enough reason to seek after it. Let alone all its other merits in this world and the next.

  Hakim ibn Hizam

  Wisdom, Islamic, Honour You

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• Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride.

  Elizabeth Chadwick

  Strong, Taken, Pride

  Elizabeth Chadwick (2010). “To Defy A King”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Beautiful, Past, Thought Provoking

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• The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

  Robert Burns

  Fear, Order, Hell

  Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.70

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• To let them share in the highest offices is to take a risk; inevitably, their unjust standards will cause them to commit injustice, and their lack of judgement will lead them into error. On the other hand there is a risk in not giving them a share, and in their non participation, for when there are many who have no property and no honours they inevitably constitute a huge hostile element in the state. But it can still remain open to them to participate in deliberating and judging.

  Aristotle

  Hands, Errors, Giving

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• And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.

  Plato

  Children, War, Sleep

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Civilization

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• Thus we work not in the light of public opinion but in the secrecy of the chamber; and perhaps the best of us are apt at times to forget the delicacies and sincerities which under these conditions are essential to harmony and honour.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Light, Physicians, Essentials

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• You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.

  Hamza Yusuf

  Teaching, Prophet

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• If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mother, Harm, You Again

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 05, 2017

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• I consider it a great honour that my movie Drive inspired so many wonderful artists to come together and create one ultra-cool glam experience.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Artist, Together, Inspired

  "Zane Lowe curates new Drive soundtrack with Chvrches, Bastille, more" by Harry Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. October 20, 2014.

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• The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.

  Philip Hensher

  Character, Independent, Unique

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• If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

  T. B. Joshua

  Blessing, Able, Poverty

  "The People Come First - T.B. Joshua". Tell Magazine (Nigeria) Interview, December 24, 2007.

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• We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Unalienable Rights, Inalienable Rights

  Declaration of Independence (1776)

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• A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Dust, Community, Honor

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• Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Honor, Vices

  'Cato' (1713) act 4, sc. 1, l. 319

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• I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say that playing football is all I have ever wanted to do and to have had such a long and successful career at Manchester United has been a real honour. This was not a decision that I have taken lightly but I feel now is the right time for me to stop playing. To have been part of the team that helped the Club reach that 19th title is a great privilege.

  Paul Scholes

  Football, Real, Team

  "Manner of Paul Scholes's retirement reflects his lack of ego" by Andy Hunter, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2011.

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• As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position.

  Sheila Jeffreys

  Sex, Men, Feminist

  Sheila Jeffreys (2014). “Gender Hurts: A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism”, p.9, Routledge

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• Will the future bring your wisdom to me?
  Or will darkness rule the kingdom for all eternity?
  You will live in my heart…
  I will still remember even though we are apart.
  I will feel you there for me
  As I walk the road of life
  You help me fight for what is right
  I will honour thy name

  Nostradamus

  Heart, Fighting, Names

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• It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.

  Ashoka

  Giving, Worthy, Forbidden

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• Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honour. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground, and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not because of anything in itself but because the air bore it along. Thus am I, a feather on the breath of God.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Beautiful, Kings, Ivory

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• Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

  Juvenal

  Wisdom, Sake, Sin

  'Satires' no. 8, l. 83

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