#honour

I knew I would be running with so many people watching all over the world because of him. People love Bolt. He has many fans out there because of his great achievements and breaking world records in Olympics. I've done the same and it's a great honour. I'm happy and I'm happy for him. ↗

— David Rudisha

#because #bolt #breaking #done #fans

And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#life #paradox #life

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

#men

My father's people... are from Fairfax in northern Virginia, just across the Mason-Dixon line. So it was an honour to play Lee, he was a great general. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#father #general #great #honour #just

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him. ↗

— Roger Federer

#am #beaten #childhood #extremely #hero

As to my Title, I know not yet whether it will be honourable or dishonourable, the issue of the War must Settle it. Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows. ↗

— Abraham Clark

#exalted #gallows #high #honourable #i

The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will. ↗

— Sean Connery

#fantastic #honour #i #knighthood #received

Love for children is the enormous untapped power that can wake us up to the profound changes we need to make if we’re to have a future worth living. ↗

— Raffi Cavoukian

#change

Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his /pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs/, --- and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgement, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure, --- no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your Representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinions. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#politics #representative #service #business

Now I want you to remember something because I don't think we shall meet again very soon. It is this; however fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, think and live fashionably; virtue and honour will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed, self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honour will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so. In short, Davey, God is not dead. And I can assure you God is not mocked. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#honour #hope #morality #virtue #love