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Quotes About Honour

Every thing we honour the holy God with must be pure and carefully kept from all pollution.
~ Matthew Henry
Those that look with contempt upon worldly honours shall be recompensed with the honour that cometh from God, which is the true honour.
~ Matthew Henry
Communion with God and serviceableness to his church are things that, above any other, put true honour upon men.
~ Matthew Henry
And all this, I repeat, occurred without any material necessity, from no other motive than a fine sense of honour and a magnificent surge of admiration and pity for a small foreign nation that was being unjustly martyred. We cannot repeat it too often: here, as in the case of the sacrifice which Belgium and England offered to the ideal of honour, is a new and unprecedented fact in history
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every time thief steals, he steals from his own peace, from his own honour! No man is as poor as a rich thief!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
For a nation to be known as warrior is a shame! For a nation to be known as peaceful is an honour! Violence brings shame, killing brings disgrace; peacefulness brings honour, nonviolence brings esteem!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
General Napoleon says that 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.' Well, I suggest doing the opposite: Interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Don't be opportunist; don't benefit from the weakness of your enemy! Be just even to your enemy! Try to find a way to defeat him without harming him; prove to be as intelligent as to find such a way! Only then, your victory will be meaningful and honourable!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Great men honour intelligence, little men honour stupidity.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Losing honour or losing everything, it is all the same thing in the realm of the good people.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!
~ 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
The more independent mind you have the more your government will hate you! It is an honour for you to be hated this way!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I don't know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.
~ Michael Ondaatje
Wealth lost, something lost; Honour lost, much lost; Courage lost, all lost.
~ Michael Robotham
Work is a sacrament. Don't despise anyone's.
~ Michael Ventura
Satanists will commit murder in honour of the Devil, but serial killers commit murder for their own subconscious psychological gain. Satanists operate in cults, serial killers mainly work alone.
~ Unknown
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
~ Moliere
As the sun is to the earth, so Honour is to a man. without it, he will not flourish. All else may fail you, but honour is the treasure no one can take from you, the shield no one can penetrate unless you let them. Honour is beautiful and clean. Honour is sacred.
~ Morgan Llywelyn
Respect must be given voluntarily, no matter if you are an elder or a leader, you cannot take it by force.
~ Unknown
make sure we are doing justice and honour to scripture itself, rather than simply using it within schemes of our own making.
~ Unknown