Ziauddin Yousafzai
Education Activist
"Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them."
Honour quotes
Honour
61 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Zadie Smith
Novelist, Essayist
"Don't confuse honours with achievement."
Horatio Nelson
Admiral
"In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poet
"Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth."
Oprah Winfrey
Television host, producer, philanthropist
"Be quiet. Part of your responsibility is to honour the quiet inside yourself so you can hear the call."
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"The honour is overpaid,When he that did the act is commentator."
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"Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast."
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"Who sows virtue ought to reap honour."
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"There is no greater honour than to serve Canadians."
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"It is a huge honour to be recognised as the world's best commentator, particularly against so many sporting greats."
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"Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour."
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"Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright."
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"As I love the name of honour more than I fear death."
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"Recognize and honour your uniqueness."
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"A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour."
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"Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith."
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"With that gentleness I can be bold; with that economy I can be liberal; shrinking from taking precedence of others, I can become a vessel of the highest honour."
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"Honour the difficult."
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"Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love."
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"We cannot come to honour under Coverlet."
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"Where there is no honour, there is no griefe."
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"An ill deede cannot bring honour."
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"A faire death honours the whole life."
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"Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]"
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"Modesty sets off one newly come to honour."
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