Top 189 Honoured Quotes & Sayings

It is far more honest to be undeservedly ignored than to be honoured without merit.

I'm so excited and honoured to be joining the BBC Radio 2 family.

I am honoured to be appointed Test captain.

Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.

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

The Padma Shri came as a very pleasant surprise. I am deeply honoured. I don't know what I did to deserve it, but I must have done something right to be honoured by our government.

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

It is better to be honourable than be honoured.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

I'm honoured to train players that want more from their football than just raising their small wages.

Any time you're honoured by your home, it's a bigger deal than most.

I’m honoured when Africa recognises me

I have been hugely honoured to have played for my country and I would never shut the door.

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.

It is always nice when you are honoured. The Lifetime award makes me feel old. I am only 55.

I've been honoured to portray such intelligent and sophisticated roles.

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

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

I feel very honoured that I've been chosen as the best player for 1992 by national coaches with so much football knowhow.

YRHPK' is a huge show and I feel honoured to be a part of it.

I feel honoured and blessed for all the support from listeners worldwide who have supported my music.

I have a lot of respect for Olivia Chow because she is a real excellent lady and honoured Iron Sheik's friend.

Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.

I am extremely honoured by Indian Council For Culture Relations, India's apex body on the promotion of great Indian culture across the world for including cinema and I am deeply honoured for being the first person from the Indian film industry to represent the cause of this industry in the overall cultural promotion globally.

?Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.

I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured

I was very honoured to be awarded an OBE in 2016 for my services to diversity in the fashion industry.

I am hugely honoured and proud to be receiving a knighthood.

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

My journey with Rajesh Khanna was good, thrilling... a roller coaster ride. I feel honoured to have two children with him.

I was honoured to work with Amol Gupte. He is a brilliant person.

I am honoured to have the support of so many strong and determined women.

I will walk on no grave of Ulster's honoured dead to do a deal with the IRA or the British government.

I'm so honoured and excited to be working in the business at a time when it's truly progressing.

I am much interested and honoured by what you tell me of C. S. Lewis.

I feel very honoured to be joining the Ferrari family and becoming a part of the most prestigious team in the history of Formula One.

It's clear that I owe Pep a lot and I would be honoured to work with him again.

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is.

I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

Obviously, I'm honoured to be mentioned as a candidate to win the Ballon d'Or, but the only way I can influence it is to just focus on playing well.

To me, Wonderlust is all about living life with a sense of adventure. I'm so honoured; I love being a Michael Kors woman.

If people remember me for any scene in a Lars von Trier film, I'm extremely honoured and forever grateful.

I felt very greatly honoured to be given a Damehood and never expected to receive anything else. So for Her Majesty to bestow a further accolade on me is very unexpected and I feel even more honoured.

A learned man is honoured by the people.A learned man commands respect everywhere for his learning. Indeed, learning is honoured everywhere.

There are many in public life who deserve only our praise and admiration. But there are too many who are products of a class that knows little other than spin and the machinations of politics. Little wonder that leadership of the transforming sort is so hard to come by. The danger is that this may be permanent. Where our best people shun politics because the profession isn't honoured as it once was, this only serves to make the profession even less honoured.

I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.

But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.

I feel really honoured to be in the Walk of Fame in Birmingham with so many great people already like Ozzy Osbourne.

I feel very honoured and proud to be playing for Nigeria.

I'm very grateful for what Mr Capello did for my career. I was really honoured that he put me in as his number one.

Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.

You are the honoured guest, Do not weep like a beggar For pieces of the world.

I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am of course delighted and honoured and, needless to say, flabbergasted.

I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.

I am honoured by Juve's interest in my services.

My children and grandchildren loved the secret servicemen and women that served us. I was honoured that they thought I was important enough to protect.

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

It's really important in our society to tell stories, and I feel grateful and honoured that I get to do that in this day and age.