Honor Quotes

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Andrew Carnegie

A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep?

Source Unknown

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 up to what light I have.

Abraham Lincoln

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

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

Emiliano Zapata

Act well your part; there all honor lies.

Alexander Pope

Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.

Sun Tzu

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Thomas Carlyle

One may survive distress, but not disgrace.

Scottish Proverb

Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.

Proverb

A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor.

Proverb

Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.

Ambrose Bierce

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.

Bernard Mandeville

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

David Hare

Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead!There's none of these so lonely and poor of old,But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.These laid the world away; poured out the redSweet wine of youth; gave up the years to beOf work and joy, and that unhoped serene,That men call age; and those who would have been,Their sons, they gave, their immortality.Blow, bugles, blow! They brought us, for our dearth,Holiness, lacked so long, and Love, and Pain.Honour has come back, as a king, to earth,And paid his subjects with a royal wage;And Nobleness walks in our ways again;And we have come into our heritage.

Rupert Brooke, The Dead

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

Joseph Conrad

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Aristotle

I did not say anything. I was always embarresed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothin was done with the meat except to buy it.

Ernest Hemingway