Honor Quotes

Honor Quote of the day

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

You're a dangerous fool who should be sent west, " he told the unconscious man. "You have forgotten the face of your father.

The Master said, “The gentleman does not serve as a vessel.”(Analects 2.12)

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.

When they go low, we go high.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

And 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.

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor...

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

You should not honor men more than truth.

[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.

Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.

I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it's worth while seeking him half your daysIf you find him before the other.---The Thousandth Man

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...

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.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

For Brutus is an honourable man So are they all all honourable men.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.

...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away...

... I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

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

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

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

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

I love the name of honor more than I fear death.

If I rise up again against the foe, dare I stand alone?

Every time you give your word, you’re putting your honor on the line.

Don't make prayer a consistent battle, but rather constantly pray against life's battles.