Honor Quotes

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are ...

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live ...

What does a title mean to me? I do not need a title. My name, which I achieved with my own strength,...

Truthfulness, honor, is not something which springs ablaze of itself; it has to be created between p...

Yes, it was dangerous, but we are not put into this world, Mr. Burton, to avoid danger when an impor...

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Be...

Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?

Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?

She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’'Sometimes one and ...

Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the on...

I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and cel...

Peace is the music of every soul. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as s...

There is another life both for you and for me,’ said I. ‘If it be the will of God that we should sow...

After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough...

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my...

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, a...

The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us...

Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk. Sur...

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who...

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Ma...

Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost; a w...

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a dive...

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for...

Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?""I consider their...

Good men don't become legends," he said quietly."Good men don't need to become legends." She opened ...

...Regardless, I still do not believe that your duty is to do as the people wish. Your duty is to le...

Why have your followers all drawn their swords, may I ask?" said Aslan."May it please Your High Maje...

For every one pupil who needs to be guarded from a weak excess of sensibility there are three who ne...

There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who ...

Some disappointments honor those who inspire them

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.