Quotes about honor

"Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor."

Addison, Joseph on honor
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"The post of honor is a private station."

Addison, Joseph on honor   

"Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it."

Akhenaton on honor   

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor."

Allen, James on honor
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"The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding."

Bacon, Francis on honor   

"For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death."

Bhagavad Gita on honor
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"A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country."

Bible on honor   

"Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return."

Boileau, Nicholas on honor
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"I love the name of honor, more than I fear death."

Caesar, Julius on honor
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"It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win."

Card, Orson Scott on honor   

"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."

Carnegie, Andrew on honor
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"A person dishonored is worst than dead."

Cervantes, Miguel De on honor
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"Honor is the reward of virtue."

Cicero, Marcus T. on honor   

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"Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature."

Cicero, Marcus T. on honor   

"Honor lies in honest toil."

Cleveland, Grover on honor   

"Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on honor   

"Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food."

Colton, Charles Caleb on honor   

"As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."

Conrad, Joseph on honor   

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

Coolidge, Calvin on honor
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"I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace."

Corneille, Pierre on honor   

"Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil."

Dryden, John on honor   

"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on honor
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"A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive."

Freidmen, Bruce J on honor   

"To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin."

Hare, David on honor   

"When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity."

Jonson, Ben on honor   

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"Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences."

Koto, Midori on honor
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"The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation."

Lincoln, Abraham on honor   

"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."

Mailer, Norman on honor   

"The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live."

Mandeville, Bernard on honor   

"Honor is simply the morality of superior men."

Mencken, H. L. on honor
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"Let my honor be without stain."

Motto on honor   

"Death rather than disgrace."

Motto on honor   

"It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough."

O'Grady, Scott on honor   

"Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others."

Pliny The Elder on honor   

"Act well your part; there all honor lies."

Pope, Alexander on honor
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"A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor."

Proverb on honor
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"Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows."

Proverb on honor   

"One may survive distress, but not disgrace."

Proverb, Scottish on honor
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"Without money honor is merely a disease."

Racine, Jean on honor   

"The higher the culture the more honorable the work."

Roucher on honor