Honor Quotes

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

Perseverance, my dear Lord. Keeps honour bright.

Ability without honor has no value.

A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.

Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention.

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for.

Fail to honor people, they fail to honor you.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

And when we view a flag, which to the eye is beautiful, and to contemplate its rise and origin inspires a sensation of sublime delight, our national honor must unite with our interests to prevent injury to the one, or insult to the other.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.

We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums, I play not marches for accepted victors only, I play marches for conquer'd and slain persons. Have you heard that it was good to gain the day?I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won. I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.

So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.

An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Thanks to menOf noble minds, is honorable meed.

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable.

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor.

Remember men, you are fighting for the ladies honor, which is probably more than she ever did.

Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.

For my part, I may speak it to my shame,I have a truant been to chivalry;And so I hear he doth account me too.

The purest treasure mortal times can afford is a spotless reputation.

Everything is honoured, but nothing matters.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor.

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,Live regist'red upon our brazen tombsAnd then grace us in the disgrace of death;When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,Th' endeavor of this present breath may buyThat honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edgeAnd make us heirs of all eternity.

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

That is honor's scornWhich challenges itself as honor's bornAnd is not like the sire. Honors thriveWhen rather from our acts we them deriveThan our foregoers.

I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.

As I hopeFor quiet days, fair issue, and long life,With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestionOur worser genius can, shall never meltMine honour into lust, to take awayThe edge of that day's celebration,When I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'dOr Night kept chain'd below.

Mrs. Teasdale calls for rescue and Firefly delivers the famous line to his cohorts as they rescue her: "Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours

Everyone honors the wise.