Quotes About Honour

I was so proud to have the chance to be able to represent Canada at the Olympics in Vancouver.

Working with photographer Mario Testino on Bulgari's 2017 global campaign in Italy was an incredible moment for me. I could see the Vatican from set! I got to play this powerful character during the shoot, and it was such an honor to represent that. My favorite pieces are from the Serpenti collection. It's distinctly Bulgari - very sexy!

It was an absolute honour to fight in Vegas. Every fighter dreams of fighting at the MGM Grand. That's where so many legends have fought before and so many legends will continue to fight.

In France, we respect women: we don't beat them; we don't ask them to hide themselves behind a veil as if they were impure.

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

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Next thing he knew he was yanked out of bed and onto his feet. "Come on," whispered Beans, "we got somewhere to go." It did not occur to Palmer not to go along. Once the shock wore off, he realized what an honor had been granted him. Imagine: A month ago these guys ignored him except to tease him; now they snuck into his house and climbed into bed with him. Palmer LaRue. Amazing!

I am a student of Ghulam Ali, who was like my guru. I changed my name in his honour.

I have the deepest admiration for Angela Palmer and her work so having my helmet as her subject has been a true honour for me. I think the sculpture is stunning and very striking, it's the most incredible combination of strength with fragility.

I know that a life has high value, but our rights, our independence,our honour have a higher value than life.

The law stated that those with property worth more than £20 a year were obliged to adopt the status of knights; but knighthood was an expensive business, with the cost of equipment alone, and many landowners were ready to pay a relatively large sum to avoid the honour.

I have a CBE - which I accepted because I knew how much my mum, who made it all possible, would have loved it.

Anytime you can be the face of the UFC is so huge, a great honor, and I would do everything I could to keep it that way.

I have deep respect for our armed forces and jawans.

I've got huge respect for Arsenal as a club.

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

But, as the ninth-century cultural critic Jahiz wrote, `Some people who affect asceticism and self denial are uneasy and embarrassed when cunt, cock and fucking are mentioned but most men you find like that are without knowledge, honour, nobility or dignity.'2 I have certainly not played up these features of the narrative,

Wisdom gives honour to nobility, and nobility to everything else.

Oamenii lumii, care se las? condu?i de sentimentele pe care lumea le inspir?, iubesc ?i urm?resc cu mult? însufle?ire onoarea, faima, str?lucirea unui nume mare printre semeni.

Robert Surcouf was the most famous of France's eighteenth-century privateers who, based on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, grew rich on English plunder before retiring to his native St Malo. Renowned for his chivalry towards prisoners, in France he is perhaps best remembered for the reply he gave a captive officer who admonished him for fighting for money rather than, as the British did, for honour. 'Each of us fights,' admitted Surcouf, 'for what he lacks most.

When you're older, you will realise the only thing that matters, the only thing, is that you had courage and honour. Lose those things and you won't die any quicker, but you'll be less than the dirt on our boots. You'll still be dust, but you'll have wasted your short time in the light.

No man could be a khan to his mother.

When we meet again, Spartan,' he murmured aloud, in prayer, 'when you ask me what we did after your death, I will not be ashamed. I promise you that. I will bring them back.

Cáin Adomnáin (The Law of Adomnán) A man must not touch a woman against her will. Even if rape does not occur, there are still penalties to be paid: For touching a woman inside her girdle: ten ounces of silver or ten milch cows For kissing a woman against her will: the full honour-price of her father or husband For shaming a woman by lifting her dress: six ounces of silver or six milch cows