Honor Quotes

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. (Plato)
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them. View quote
Livy
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. View quote
Socrates
What is left when honor is lost? View quote
Publilius Syrus
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. View quote
Aeschylus
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart. View quote
Alice Walker
The law: It has honored us; may we honor it. View quote
Daniel Webster
Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical! View quote
Margaret Fuller
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. View quote
Herbert Hoover
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. (Calvin Coolidge)
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. View quote
H. L. Mencken
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. View quote
André Gide
There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance. View quote
Victor Hugo
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. View quote
Walter Scott
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. View quote
Winston Churchill
All the perplexities, confusions, and distress in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. View quote
John Adams
National honor is national property of the highest value. View quote
James Monroe
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. (Joseph Addison)
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust. View quote
Geronimo
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