Honor Quotes

Youth, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer.

Ambrose Bierce

You should not honor men more than truth.

Plato

To show his nervousness was not shameful; only to admit it.

Ernest Hemingway

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

C.S. Lewis

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong

Thomas Jefferson

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor

George Bernard Shaw

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

James Allen

For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.

Thomas Jefferson

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.

David Borenstein, 1996

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.

Scott O'Grady

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Publilius Syrus

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

Publilius Syrus

How can he be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Without money honor is merely a disease.

Jean Racine

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Midori Koto

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

Plato

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Friedrich von Schiller

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Alfred Lord Tennyson