Top 242 Honour Quotes

Yes, I can confirm that the Rossoneri made an offer for me, it was really an honour to be coveted by them, but my desire was to remain with Hercules.
David Trezeguet
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
Samuel Smiles
Like everyone else, I thought Messi was the best player in the world, and to be here with him now is a fantastic honour. It’s a great experience watching him in training and in matches… the way he can transform a match is unbelievable.
Philippe Coutinho
The lines on your face are your medals. You’ve earned them, so why shouldn’t they be worn with honour?
Cherie Lunghi
I certainly feel I’m carrying the flag for Britain. I feel an honour in that but, at the same time, knowing my roots are in Africa, I’d like that to help motivate people from there. Even coming from a third world country, it is possible to get to the top of wherever they want to be.
Chris Froome
To win BBC’s Sound of 2018 was a huge honour. A lot of my favourite artists have won it before.
Sigrid
Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.
Indira Gandhi
Playing for South Africa is an absolute honour, and I don’t feel like I need to relax. Every game I take more than seriously.
Imran Tahir
Being invited to score for ‘Black Swan’ was a real honour. To have my work form part of such an amazing film is something I am very proud of.
Ludovico Einaudi
To get the PFA Player of the Year is a fantastic honour. It’s the highest honour you can get because it’s voted by your fellow peers.
Virgil van Dijk
I love watching the Oscars and seeing everybody saying all that ‘it’s an honour just to be nominated’ rubbish. Then you see their faces when the split screen comes up as the winner is announced – the losers are all smiling through gritted teeth and looking as if they just swallowed half a pound of soor plooms.
John Niven
I have the deepest admiration for Angela Palmer and her work so having my helmet as her subject has been a true honour for me. I think the sculpture is stunning and very striking, it’s the most incredible combination of strength with fragility.
Susie Wolff
To be dubbed by my sovereign is an absolutely wonderful honour for me and my family.
Nicholas Soames
For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
Lactantius
Being the first Australian to ever actually hold a WWE promoted championship – it is a huge honour. It’s something that can never be taken away. Words can’t describe it.
Buddy Murphy
When the honour is given to that scientist personally the happiness is sweet indeed. Science is, on the whole, an informal activity, a life of shirt sleeves and coffee served in beakers.
George Porter
In my eyes, I will never be up there with the Sir Steve Redgraves and the Sir Chris Hoys of this world. It’s not something that drives me; I just enjoy going to the Olympic Games. Just to be mentioned in the same breath as those people is an honour for me. I don’t ever think about those kind of things.
Bradley Wiggins
As soon as Liverpool declared their interest in signing me, it was a simple decision to make. A club with Liverpool’s history wants you? Come on, you just pack your bags and go. It will be an honour to wear the famous red shirt.
Fabinho
Mulan represents honour and bravery, but, for me, it’s also that she’s willing to discover herself and willing to go forward. I think that’s important to audiences too. Not many people would be willing to do that in the first place.
Liu Yifei
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
It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
Dalton McGuinty
How friendly all men would be one with another, if no regard were paid to honour and money! I believe it would be a remedy for everything.
Saint Teresa of Avila
You cannot force anybody to honour somebody. You can only ask.
Sharmila Tagore
After time away it always makes you realise how special it is to play for England and what an honour it is.
Andrew Strauss
Islam believes that Jesus is a prophet, and they honour him – highly – and they respect him, and they follow his teachings. So, for me, as somebody who was raised Muslim, it is an honour to actually play Jesus, just because of that.
Haaz Sleiman
It’s been a great honour and privilege to serve Canadians.
Julie Payette
Being a global ambassador is as much a responsibility a

Being a global ambassador is as much a responsibility as it is an honour.
Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
It was a huge honour to play at the Palladium with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Conchita Wurst
He’s a legend and I respect his work, so I went down and paid my respects when Charlton was on the set. He was nice but I think he lied a little. He said it was an honour to be in a movie with me, but I don’t believe it.
Mark Wahlberg
The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour – habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.
Ellen Key
I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
The 3,000th episode is a great milestone for ‘Hollyoaks,’ so it was just really nice and a big honour to play a part in it.
Rachel Shenton
With sport dramas and war movies, it is always about accomplishment, where people are fighting for their country or community’s honour.
Vivek Agnihotri
I must therefore implore your indulgence for a pretty long and plain development of my views concerning that cause which the citizens of New York, and you particularly, gentlemen, honour with generous interest.
Lajos Kossuth
Every year I look at the ‘GQ’ Best-Dressed List and have thought what an honour it must be to be included. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw my own face in there.
Douglas Booth
I’m extremely proud to have represented my country. It’s truly an honour.
Israel Folau
I think what ‘The Hobbit’ and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship… so they’re things that do resonate with people.
Martin Freeman
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature’s, not honour’s law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.
Archilochus
Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people’s achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
Samantha Stosur
My old friend Vlado Prelog has asked me to offer, from both of us, our thanks to the Royal Academy of Sciences and to the Nobel Foundation for the honour conferred on us.
John Cornforth
To represent your country is the ultimate honour, and to play Test cricket for India will be the ultimate fulfilment of my cricketing ambition.
Prithvi Shaw
That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.
Laurie Lee
It’s an honour to wear the Selecao shirt, and I want to help the team and the manager in any way I can.
Andreas Pereira
It’s always an honour doing anything for your country.
Gary Kemp
It’s a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
I’ve always said that when you pull on an England shirt, it’s a proud moment, and it’s an honour to play for and represent your country.
Ashley Young
I always just read the play and find a world. That world must honour the play, enhance it, and maybe shine some new light – not satirise or try to reinvent in a way that is placing the idea above the thing. The play is the thing.
David Farr
One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.
Nick Clegg
There’s not much more of an honour – to work for, and with, working people.
Sharan Burrow
I do honour the very flea of his dog.
Ben Jonson
It’s an honour to captain the West Indies.
Brian Lara
The elite footballers of one country meet at the national team and it’s an honour for me to be among them.
Ilkay Gundogan
It was quite an honour when ‘New Woman’ magazine voted me 88th sexiest man in the world. I think I was one in front of David Cameron.
Robert Webb
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.
Declan Rice
It’s a great honour for me to be a part of a Kamal Haasan film.
Mohanlal
Some things never change, suck up to the government and you get an honour.
George Osborne
Yes, I’ve got inwardness and tenderness, but I also get angry and vituperative, and you have to honour that as well.
Tony Harrison
I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome di

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one’s feeling of honour.
Georg Brandes
The Champions League is one of the biggest club stages you can reach and I think for players it is an honour to be part of it. It certainly is for me. You just enjoy being a part of it playing against the best clubs in Europe.
Ilkay Gundogan
With Ronaldo being one of the greats, probably one of the best players ever, it’s going to be an honour to hopefully play against him.
Trent Alexander-Arnold
Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it.
Lord Kelvin
There used to be a tradition of the loveable rogue who would steal from the honour boxes in churches and buy a round of drinks with the money he snagged. And everyone would find him tremendously good company. But not any more.
Douglas Coupland