Personal Honour Quotes

Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I never make a point of making people call me Sir. It doesn't matter to me, though; it was a great honour to be knighted. I'm very proud of it.

When famous people come up to you it's a bit weird, but it's an honour, really, when they recognise you and want to chat to you for a bit.

Only with the honour thus acquired can we earn the respect of our other compatriots as well.

When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.

The fact that I can unfurl the Indian flag the world over is the biggest honour.

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.

I'm pretty excited: to be inducted into the Hall of Fame is a massive achievement... and to be inducted with Oscar de la Hoya and Felix Trinidad, two great fighters, is a massive honour for me and my family.

I'm extremely proud to have represented my country. It's truly an honour.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

You may take from me, Sir, the privileges and emoluments of place, but you cannot, and you shall not, take from me those habitual and warm regards for the prosperity of Great Britain which constitute the honour, the happiness, the pride of my life, and which, I trust, death alone can extinguish.

If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

Right now I’m inspired to fight for the honour of my country.

That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.

Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

Coming through the youth ranks at Fulham is a great honour to me.

It's always an honour to receive recognition, but I always consider them more important when they come from your colleagues.

I thank Allah that I have been playing for Pakistan for a long time. This is a big honour for me; I had not even thought so.

My pride at wearing the Irish shirt was always 100 per cent genuine. It was a great honour for myself and my family and something I will always cherish.

Every second I'm on the pitch for Wales is an honour, and I love playing.

It is a bit surreal for me because I have been a lifelong Birmingham fan, so to be inducted into the Hall of Fame is a massive honour.

I've grown up with Kenny Dalglish; now, to be signed by him is a massive honour.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

It's a great feeling to be captaining the Sunrisers team. It's really an honour for me, and I am looking forward to do the job.

Representing my country will always be one of my proudest achievements, and I feel honoured to have played for England.