Motivational Quotes

Honor

Honor lies in honest toil.

- Cleveland, Grover

Best Quotes about Honor

Honor does not have to be defended.

Robert J. Sawyer

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Addison, Joseph

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Syrus, Publilius

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

Syrus, Publilius

10.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Mailer, Norman

11.

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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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.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Bacon, Francis

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Act well your part; there all honor lies.

Pope, Alexander

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Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.

Jewish Proverb

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

Pliny The Elder

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Without money honor is merely a disease.

Racine, Jean

19.

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

Proverb

20.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Welsh Proverb

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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Oprah Winfrey

22.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Cleveland, Grover

23.

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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.

Mandeville, Bernard

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

Allen, James

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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.

Card, Orson Scott

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

Twain, Mark

28.

Why should honor outlive honestly? [Orthello]

Shakespeare, William

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

Hare, David

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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Mencken, H. L.

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One may survive distress, but not disgrace.

Proverb, Scottish

32.

Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

Dryden, John

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Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Ben Jonson

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The higher the culture the more honorable the work.

Roucher

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Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.

Proverb

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Death rather than disgrace.

Motto

37.

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

39.

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.

O'Grady, Scott

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

Boileau, Nicholas

41.

For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Corneille, Pierre

43.

Let my honor be without stain.

Motto

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Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.

Freidmen, Bruce J

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All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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What is left when honor is lost?

Publilius Syrus