Quotes About Honor

Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended.

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

Success in war was the only success that counted; failure was a disgrace to be wiped out only by starting another war and winning it.

It was a murder, nothing more. Athos

Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours. I own that I am lost in wonder to find myself promoted to an honor of which I feel myself unworthy—

Captain or mate, M. Morrel, I shall always have the greatest respect for those who possess the owners' confidence.

Yes, said he, yes, Anne of Austria is my true queen. Upon a word from her, I would betray my country, I would betray my king, I would betray my God.

D'Artagnan is right," said Athos. "Behold our three leaves of absence, which come from M. de Treville; and here are three hundred pistoles, which come from I know not where. Let us go and be killed where we are told to go. Is life worth so many questions? D'Artagnan, I am ready to follow you.

When you want to obtain something touching a man's self-respect, you must spare his pride even the appearance of suffering.

We are judges of wounds, we old soldiers

he despises all honors, and contents himself with those written on his passport." "That

He was the friend of the king, who honored highly, as everyone knows, the memory of his father, Henry IV.

disinterestedness is the brightest ray in which a noble sword can shine.

Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas