Honor Quotes

I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street I...

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Woodcourt: “Miss Summerson,” said Mr. Woodcourt, “if without obtruding myself on your confidence I m...

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

Honour to Agamemnon is a thing / That he can pick, pick up, put back, pick up again, / A somesuch yo...

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

If any honor existed in war, it was in fighting to protect others from harm

[George Everett Macdonald was] a valiant soldier for human liberty.

The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.”(Analects 2.12)

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

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot...

Now the son whose father's existance in this world is historical and speculative even before the son...

All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various ti...

In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...

Rebuild your world, rebuild your race, rebuild your empire. Rebuild it all. But make sure you rebuil...

All things that live must die. Man alone it seems lives all his life in the knowledge of death. And ...

Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with ...

Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had a...

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27...

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord wh...

You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yi...

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you c...

Fed by neither Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward . . . He hadn't a God or a lover--the two us...

Act well your part,there all the honor lies.

I carry my adornments on my soul.I do not dress up like a popinjay;But inwardly, I keep my daintines...

I know that in the end you'll overwhelm me, but I'll still fight you as long as there's a breath in ...

The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elev...

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of vi...

I did not say anything. I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and th...

I was thinking about honour. It's a thing that changes doesn't it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years...

A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courag...

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beaut...

What a man knows hardly matters. It is what he does.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his ...

Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had...

Sellswords put gold before honor.

Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live...

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it t...

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when the...

You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them ...

Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh yo...

Even a hedge knight has his honor.

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe.

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's al...

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this hono...

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest to...

Honor lies in honest toil.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Morality and honor are not to be confused. "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is...

We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by sugge...

Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no ...

I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not...

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other...

[A man] finds himself forced by necessity to borrow money. He knows that he will not be able to repa...

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with ...

I know that you are preparing to fight." There were screams amongst the students, some of whom clutc...

Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It co...

When someone tells a man to be a man, they mean that there is a way to be a man. A man is not just a...

The promise I've tried to honor my entire career, that the rule of law and the design of the founder...

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners

‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got ...

If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of he...

What is going to happen to the Aurorans?""They are prisoners of war," Albion said. "I should imagine...

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

Let Us Be GratefulToday we give our thanks most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit...

We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningf...

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

The Mayor spoke proudly. 'Yes, they will light it. I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir...

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar...

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wa...

I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment f...

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

The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a Männer...

Desperaux," she said. He saw his name on her lips."I honor you," whispered Desperaux. "I honor you.

And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship poss...

What do you think dignity's all about?'The directness of the inquiry did, I admit, take me rather by...

Your job today is to pass gas. You do that and we can start feeding you liquids. No fart, no food.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger amon...

The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked ...

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, an...

With no doubt Al Hussain was one of the greatest rebels, for correcting the path of rulers who devia...

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is...

I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises ...

I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.

And so shall honor Morgant," Gwydion said, "for what he used to be, and Ellidyr Prince of Pen-Llarca...