Quotes About Honour

If a man . . . purges himself . . ., he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and profitable for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work (2 Timothy 2:21).

When He made man in His image it was, above all, with the purpose that the desires of man would be in harmony with the desires of God. This is the high honor of being made in the likeness of God—that we are to feel and wish just as God.

The humble man seeks at all times to act according to the rule: with honour preferring one another; by charity serve one another; esteem[ing] others better than themselves; submitting yourselves one to another.

Converse with almost any man, grown old in a profession, and you will find him regretting that he did not enter into some different course, to which he too late finds his genius better adapted, or in which he discovers that wealth and honour are more easily attained.

Can sensual pleasure be the great end of an immortal spirit in this life? That pleasure cannot be lasting, and it must be followed by remorse, which is obtained either by doing injustice to, or degrading, a fellow-creature. And does not a woman, when she forfeits her honour, degrade herself, not only in the sight of the world, but in the secret thoughts of even a profligate lover, destroying her own consequence with him?

Lady Olivia enquired after the distance of North hamptonshire. She will make the tour of England, she says, and visit me there. I was obliged to say I should take her visit as an honour. Wicked Politeness! Of how many falshoods dost thou make the people, who are called polite, guilty!

It is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains [man] from sin. Loving and revering God as his father, honouring and obeying Him as his master, although there were no hell, he would revolt at the very idea of offending Him.

Again, if we have any anxiety about our own salvation, we ought to make no peace nor truce with him who is continually laying schemes for its destruction. But such is the character given to Satan in the third chapter of Genesis, where he is seen seducing man from his allegiance to God, that he may both deprive God of his due honour, and plunge man headlong in destruction.

Are not heavens joyes as valiant to asswage Lusts, as earths honour was to them?

To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's.

Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials.

A good death does honour to a whole life.

The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

Hiding and protecting the parts of your body, from evil and filthy eyes, means dignified and glorious respect and honour for your body; otherwise, you destine humiliation for yourself and your body shamelessly.

Humanity is a great and high honour of humans, while racism is the worse and ugly face of human life; it is a disgrace and a rejection of humanity.

The human's first institution of love is a mother, and honour is a father, and the journey of that both causes not the gapes, and collapse in the way. As a result, the complex stays, as a missing, one of them.

To not care, respect, and honour someone's values, culture, religion, and moral thoughts are awkward behaviour; it also means you declare; you are a duffer. Though people will understand your way of thinking while you don't see problems, in this regard; however, you make laugh people only about yourself.

When the clarion call is sounded, I will ride out and fight in the name of liege and Lady, Whilst I draw breath the lands bequeathed unto me will remain untainted by evil. Honour is all. Chivalry is all...

She [the Church] proclaims that we owe love, honour and service to God in the first place, and after God not to humanity immediately, but to our father and mother, to our families, to our countries. After these, to humanity.

A war is like the Antarctic in one respect. There is no getting out of it with honour as long as you can put one foot before the other.

God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield. Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away, And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life, which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain; But who can get another life again?

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.