Honor Quotes

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Mark Twain

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

Ben Jonson

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

Calvin Coolidge

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

Woodrow Wilson

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

Woodrow Wilson

Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine

Victor Hugo

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world

George Bernard Shaw

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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

Pierre Corneille

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

Nicholas Boileau

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

William Shakespeare

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.

Orson Scott Card

I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.

Orson Scott Card

It was not love at all, really, but rather a yearning for the honor and respect of the other men that held them. Pride, then... Indeed, all their connection with each other at this moment was tied up with the respect they felt they were earning by their actions.

Orson Scott Card

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

George Bernard Shaw

There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance

Victor Hugo