Honour Quotes - Page 26

• Recognize and honour your uniqueness.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspiring, Uniqueness

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• Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?

  J. G. Farrell

  Ideas, People, Earth

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• Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen.

  William Wordsworth

  Brother, Community, Gentleman

  'The Prelude' (1850) bk. 9, l. 227

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• O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

  John Milton

  Pairs, Mutual

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.57-8.

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• What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Waste, Wasting Time

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.152

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• And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.

  Matthew Arnold

  Stars, Pain, Grief

  Matthew Arnold (1889). “Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold”

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• A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Justice, Principles

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.156, Delphi Classics

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• Peace is the wish of the French of Italy Spain Germany and all the world, and Great Britain alone the cause of preventing its accomplishment, and this not for any point of honour or even interest, but merely lest there should be an example in the modern world of a great powerful Republic.

  Charles James Fox

  Powerful, Accomplishment, Wish

  Charles James Fox (1970). “Memorials and correspondence”

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• So fully am I impressed with the vast importance and necessity of attaining what will be the object of my motion this night, that if, during the almost forty years that I have had the honour of a seat in parliament, I had been so fortunate as to accomplish that, and that only, I should think I had done enough, and could retire from public life with comfort, and the conscious satisfaction, that I had done my duty.

  Charles James Fox

  Night, Thinking, Years

  Charles James Fox (1815). “The speeches of the right honourable Charles James Fox, in the House of Commons”, p.659

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• There learned arts do flourish in great honour
  And poets's wits are had in peerless price;
  Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her,
  Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice.
  For end all good, all grace there freely grows,
  Had people grace it gratefully to use:
  For God His gifts there plenteously bestows,
  But graceless men them greatly do abuse.

  Edmund Spenser

  Art, Men, People

  Edmund Spenser, George Gilfillan (1859). “The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations”, p.175

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• Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
  In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky;
  The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.
  To think, without desert of gentle deed
  And noble worth, to be advanced high,
  Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed,
  Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.

  Edmund Spenser

  Flower, Blow, Men

  Edmund Spenser (1965). “Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry”

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• An ill deede cannot bring honour.

  George Herbert

  Ill

  George Herbert (1862). “The Works of George Herbert: In Prose and Verse”

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• But few prize honour more than money.

  Sallust

  Money, Prize

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• 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.

  Nick Frost

  Art, Discipline, Noble

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• What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

  John Sentamu

  Writing, Sunday, Opportunity

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• The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Children, Fool, Bait

  Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.

  Robert the Bruce

  Fighting, Men, Good Man

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

  Samuel Smiles

  May, Glory, Burden

  Samuel Smiles (1872). “Character”, p.88

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• Life's about a hell of a lot more than being happy. It's about feeling the full range of stuff: happiness, sadness, anger, grief, love, hate. If you try to shut one of those off, you shut them all off. I don't want to be happy. I know I won't live happily ever after. I want more than that, something richer. I want to go right up close to the beauty and the ugliness. I want to see it all, know it all, understand it all. The richness and the powerty, the joy and the cruelty, the sweetness and the sadness. That's the best way I can honour my friends who died.

  John Marsden

  Hate, Grief, Sadness

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• Then, at the end of every hand, Miss Bolo would inquire with a dismal countenance and reproachful sigh, why Mr. Pickwick had not returned that diamond, or led the club, or roughed the spade, or finessed the heart, or led through the honour, or brought out the ace, or played up to the king, or some such thing; and in reply to all these grave charges, Mr. Pickwick would be wholly unable to plead any justification whatever, having by this time forgotten all about the game.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Kings, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.312

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• "My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."

  Charles Dickens

  Dust, Two, Words Of Wisdom

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When you look back you talk about legends of the game, he's certainly up there. Twenty trophies since 1994. He just seems to get better and better. I've had the honour of playing alongside him. The four years I've played alongside him, he is the best player, one of the first names on the manager's teamsheet. He is just a complete legend. There are not enough players like Paul Scholes around any more for my liking. 'Legend' is over-used but this guy is right up there with the very best.

  Dwight Yorke

  Player, Years, Games

  "Rio: Scholes is the best player of his generation, fact!". www.mirror.co.uk. May 31, 2011.

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• My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.

  Lindsay Fox

  Cousin, Father, School

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• Do not be deceived by a man's eloquence; rather whoever fulfils trusts and refrains from impugning people's honour is a real man.

  Umar

  Real, Men, People

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• Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir.
  The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.

  Horace

  Men, Effort, Rewards

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