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Quotes About Honor

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.
~ Jane Austen, Emma
You start to look at it with a deeper respect and I think that deeper respect for what you do builds more self-respect.
~ Jimmy Chamberlin
Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.
~ John Herschel
Those who want respect, give respect.
~ James Gandolfini
Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
Always respect your superiors, if you have any.
~ Kinky Friedman
I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.
~ Adela Rogers St. Johns
Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
~ Samuel Johnson
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
~ Joseph Joubert
The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.
~ Ambrose Bierce
You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care
~ William Shakespeare
I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.
~ Karl Malone
It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves
~ Charles Dickens
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.
~ Plutarch
I'd rather be broke and have a whole lot of respect. It's the principle of it.
~ O.C.
What is at stake is human dignity. If a man is not accorded respect he cannot respect himself and if he does not respect himself, he cannot demand it.
~ Cesar Chavez
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
~ Ayn Rand
I don't like to trash talk... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.
~ Uriah Hall
When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
~ Oscar Wilde
A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.
~ Friedrich Schiller
One must have the humility and the imagination to honor all deep human experiences - not least those one has never come near to sharing.
~ Rosamond Lehmann
For a story to be told, it must be told properly, and to tell a story properly, it must be told with respect.
~ Anne Cameron