Honor Quotes


Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. Sophocles Honor 429
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. Calvin Coolidge Honor 192
Honor is the reward of virtue. Marcus Tullius Cicero Honor 181
Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; take honor from me and my life is done. William Shakespeare Honor 176
Act well your part; there all honor lies. Alexander Pope Honor 165
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act; even when it has worked and he has not been caught. H.L. Mencken Honor 161
As I love the name of honour more than I fear death. William Shakespeare Honor 133
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. Voltaire Honor 132
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates honor 129
Honor lies in honest toil. Grover Cleveland Honor 124
For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death. Bhagavad Gita Honor 120
Sleep did not honor me with its presence. Alysha Speer Honor 111
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. Andrew Carnegie Honor 103
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. Socrates Honor 100
Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows. Proverbs Honor 99
Men show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods. Johann Friedrich Von Schiller Honor 98
He that hath a trade hath an estate and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. Benjamin Franklin Honor 97
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others. Pliny The Elder Honor 96
I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. Aeschylus Honor 95
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson Honor 93
Better not be at all than not be noble. Alfred Lord Tennyson Honor 93
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. Charles Caleb Colton Honor 92
It is a good man who stands up for his friends but an honorable man who stands up for his enemies. Violet Haberdasher Honor 91
Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello William Shakespeare Honor 86
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. Norman Mailer Honor 85
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor. Friedrich von Schiller Honor 84
For the coming of that day shall I fight I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. Ayn Rand Honor 83
When you give each other everything it becomes an even trade. Each wins all. Lois McMaster Bujold Honor 83
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. Joseph Addison Honor 82
All is lost save honor. Francis I Honor 82
He put his forehead against hers. Alannah my heart is yours. He said softly. And yet I must hand it over to someone else for the keeping. Her last words falling to a strained whisper. B.C. Morin Honor 81
Seine Ehre kann auch der Arme behalten nicht aber der Schlechte. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Honor 81
The higher the culture the more honorable the work. Roucher Honor 81
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. Cormac McCarthy Honor 80
When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. Ben Jonson Honor 79
To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. Confucius Honor 78
If any honor existed in war it was in fighting to protect others from harm Christopher Paolini Honor 78
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson Honor 77
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad. Arthur Schopenhauer Honor 77
Enemies the wizard said are the price of honour. Terry Goodkind Honor 77
Who sows virtue reaps honor. Leonardo da Vinci Honor 75
Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings and propel us on occasion to greatness. R.J. Palacio Honor 75
There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved. Francis I Honor 75
A person dishonored is worst than dead. Miguel de Cervantes Honor 73
We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper the faithful wife the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler the tramp the cheat. John Steinbeck Honor 73
A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep? Source Unknown Honor 72
There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. Its just a waste of perfectly good happiness. Katerina Stoykova Klemer Honor 71
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. David Hare Honor 69
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster. Livy Honor 69
I was honored at the awards ceremony. I didnt get any recognition but I was honored to be there. Tickets were cheaper than I imagined Jarod Kintz Honor 68

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