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Quotes About Honour

I think every bowl game is exciting, but when you get to play in a bowl game that represents a cause that the Cure Bowl represents, I think that's an honor.
~ Scott Frost
When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.
~ Rickey Henderson
I had the honor and privilege of working with John Ritter.
~ Will Friedle
Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Method Man, for him to offer me the spot as the first Jewish member of the Wu Tang Clan, you know, was an honor.
~ Josh Peck
Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.
~ Mark Mason
Total openness to serving others is our hallmark, it alone is our title of honour!
~ Pope Francis
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
~ William Shakespeare, Henry V
It was amazing for me to even perform at the Grammys, but to do so alongside Annie Lennox was a truly incredible honor.
~ Hozier
I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured
~ Kailash Satyarthi
The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.
~ Jean-Baptiste Say
Apparently they're going to bring in 'Super Asbos'. But 'Asbos' already sound too cool. Teenagers see them as a badge of honour. They should call them 'Gaybos' or 'Bender Badges'.
~ Frankie Boyle
What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.
~ Laozi
I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation
~ Ben Jonson
That is the man you face. He has more honour and integrity than any man I have ever met. He is dedicated to his people and his country. And I am proud to have been his lover.
~ C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising
Aft the more honour, forward the better man
~ Horatio Nelson
Whoever honoured the word of God shall be blessed.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
THE NOBEL PRIZE for Literature was given to Bob Dylan. The affirmation of Bob's talent was obvious and overdue. He was one of the twentieth century's literary masters, and this was the world's highest honor. No artist meant more to me.
~ Jann S. Wenner
dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backward) honour the past but welcome the future (and dance your death away at this wedding) never mind a world with its villains or heroes (for god likes girls and tomorrow and the earth)
~ E.E. Cummings
Should I come to you, Father, with anything that made me ashamed? What do I matter? What's honour to me? My honour is to keep her from harm and from grief. I have no other; I want none.
~ Edith Pargeter
She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.
~ Edith Wharton
she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.
~ Edith Wharton
She had been bored all the afternoon by Percy Gryce—the mere thought seemed to waken an echo of his droning voice—but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.
~ Edith Wharton