Motivational Quotes

Honor

Without money honor is merely a disease.

- Racine, Jean

Best Quotes about Honor

Let my honor be without stain.

Motto

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Without money honor is merely a disease.

Racine, Jean

Act well your part; there all honor lies.

Pope, Alexander

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Pliny The Elder

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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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb

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He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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

Boileau, Nicholas

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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Addison, Joseph

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All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Honor lies in honest toil.

Cleveland, Grover

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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.

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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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Honor does not have to be defended.

Robert J. Sawyer

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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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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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One may survive distress, but not disgrace.

Proverb, Scottish

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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

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The higher the culture the more honorable the work.

Roucher

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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What is left when honor is lost?

Publilius Syrus

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

Dryden, John

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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

32.

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

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

Twain, Mark

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Why should honor outlive honestly? [Orthello]

Shakespeare, William

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Death rather than disgrace.

Motto

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

Welsh Proverb

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An honor is not diminished for being shared.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.

Proverb

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