Quotes About Honor

The humble man feels no jealousy or envy. He can praise God when others are preferred and blessed before him. He can bear to hear others praised and himself forgotten, because in God's presence he has learned to say with Paul 'I be nothing' (2 Corinthians 12:11). He has received the spirit of Jesus, who did not please Himself and did not seek His own honor, as the spirit of his life.

Until a humility which will rest in nothing less than the end and death of self; which gives up all the honor of men as Jesus did, to seek the honor that comes from God alone; which absolutely makes and counts itself nothing, that God may be all, that the Lord alone may be exalted, until such a humility is what we seek in Christ above our most important joy, and welcome at any price, there is very little hope of a religion that will conquer the world. I

Until a humility that rests in nothing less than the end and death of self, and which gives up all the honor of men as Jesus did to seek the honor that comes from God alone (which absolutely makes and counts itself nothing) that God may be all, that the Lord alone may be exalted—until such a humility is what we seek in Christ above our chief joy, and welcome at any price, there is very little hope of a faith that will conquer the world. I

Oh, that the Holy Spirit might be held in honor as a power to fill us with the very life and nature of God and of Christ!

As long as we take glory from one another, or seek, love, and jealously guard the glory of this life and the honor and reputation that comes from men, we do not seek and cannot receive the glory that comes from God.

One of power's invisible perquisites is that others grant you deference without your having to ask for it.

Honor your father and mother, Son. You chose to honor us, and you did the right thing. Your father and I believe God wanted to protect you for a greater purpose.

If one has a good reputation and trusted, the rules can be bent to accommodate.

One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.

And yay for the Sitter of the Month!

Trying" is failing with honor.

There is no doubt that certain beliefs are incompatible with love, and this notion of "honor" is among them.

The Koran points to another contemptible characteristic of the Jews: their craven desire to live, no matter at what price and regardless of quality, honor, and dignity.

Lieutenant General William G. Boykin

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Who are you, O noble one?' asked Gaam, 'My friend the centauress has walked these lands many times, but she has never seen one as mighty as you.' 'Then heed my words, dwarf,'--the Kol-dwellers all flinched and looked at Gaam, but he was unmoved--'and tell thy woman-horse I am Sir Cyr, Guardian of the Bridge.' 'Sir what?' asked Gaam. 'Sir Cyr.' 'Never mind. (...)

We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to them.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to boast an honour by an act which shows that it was conferred without merit, yet most men seem rather inclined to confess the want of virtue than of importance.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Catechism.3. Recovery of health. Your honour's players hearing your amendment,Are come to play a pleasant comedy.Shakesp.Tam. Shrew.

Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny.BibleMatt.xx. 13.5. To

A promise is an obligation. A just man will keep his promise, a generous man will go beyond it. — This is my rule.

The first collection which he published, intituled PAMELA, exhibited the beauty and superiority of virtue in an innocent and unpolished mind, with the reward which often, even in this life, a protecting Providence bestows on goodness. A young woman of low degree, relating to her honest parents the severe trials she met with from a master who ought to have been the protector, not the assailer of her honour, shews the character of a libertine in its truly contemptible light.