Quotes About Honor

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Si monsieur votre père daigne éjaculer quelquefois dans votre petite bouche, acceptez cela les yeux baissés, et comme un grand honneur dont vous n'êtes pas digne. Surtout n'allez pas ensuite vous en vanter comme une sotte à l'oreille de votre maman.

Why did things have to be so complicated with human beings?...Yet if we were not what we were, creatures with at least the awareness of purpose and honor, what would we be? Empty knights in armor, seeming so strong on the outside, yet hollow inside?

Half a century ago in this court I was sworn in as the Member of Parliament for George. And here I am today I am not better than General De Wet. I am not better than President Steyn. Like them I stand firm in my principles. I can do no different. So help me God.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

You should not honor men more than truth.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

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

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.

there may be greater glory in obedience where the desire to obey is less

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Poverty is not dishonourable in itself, but only when it arises from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature.

For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people.

The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it…eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him.

When someone asked Demaratus why the Spartans disgrace those who throw away their shields but not those who abandon their breastplates or helmets, he said that they put the latter on for their own sakes but the shield for the sake of the whole line.

For they either believe their colleagues to be their equals and so they fight against them; or they believe them to be superior and so they envy them; or they believe them inferior and so they despise them. We must, however, pay court to the colleague who is superior, make the inferior better, and honor the equal.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Similarly that is no true democracy in which the whole crowd of citizens is free to do whatever they wish or purpose, but when, in a community where it is traditional and customary to reverence the gods, to honor our parents, to respect our elders, and to obey the laws, the will of the greater number prevails, this is to be called a democracy.

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