#honour

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

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#abyss #battle #courage #die #entering

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#albeit #cost #failing #few #honourable

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

I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#following #honoured #hope #i #loyal

If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#different #different shapes #express #expression #feels

To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#citizen #did #europe #great #his

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time. ↗

— Wayne Rooney

#buzz #country #dreamed #every #every time

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country ↗

— E.M. Forster

#honour #inspirational #friendship

But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour. ↗

— Abu Bakar Bashir

#accept #could #even #honour #leaders