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Quotes About Honour

Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is a duel to the death which no man of honour should decline.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The moon doesn't have enough gravity to keep an atmosphere around it and some men doesn't have enough honour to keep God's angels around them!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?
~ Michel de Montaigne
A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.
~ Phil Ochs
Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.
~ Horace
The soil out of which such men as he are made is good to be born on, good to live on, good to die for and to be buried in.
~ James Russell Lowell
My reaction to your news is delighted astonishment that Lanark has been judged more popular than a book by Ian Rankin, and only regret that this wonderful honour had no money attached to it!
~ Christopher Brookmyre
They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
~ Laurence Binyon
Heaven lieth at the feet of mothers.
~ Muhammad
Mother! Believe me, this word is more sacred than the name of Lord Ram.
~ Tanmaya Guru
The Sound of Music was just such an honour to be in, because it was a movie that appeals to so many people, and they just loved it so much and they still love it to this day.
~ Angela Cartwright
I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach
Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore.
~ Kris Kristofferson
If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
~ Buck Owens
The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .
~ George Washington
I salute every individual who honours the core values of peace and help in one way or another to make a difference.
~ Widad Akrawi
The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.
~ Heinz Fischer
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace--but a peace I hope with honour.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
~ Aron Ralston
There is no honour in dying of something. I would rather die for.For love, for respect, for peace.
~ Manisha Bansal