Quotes About Honor

Men are respectable only as they respect.

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love it and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

In the East, fames are won. In the west, deeds are done.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. Samuel Johnson The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

Nada es tan sagrado como la integridad de tu propia mente. Absuélvete a ti mismo, y tendrás la aprobación del mundo.

We have the same interest in condition and character. We honor the rich, because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.

Sacrilege is often defined as taking something that belongs to God and using it profanely. But there is a bigger sacrilege we commit all the time. That is to take something and give it to God when it means absolutely nothing to us.

Living under the tremendous illusion that personal freedoms and freedom of speech are devoid of moral assumptions and responsibilities, we have bankrupted ourselves, so that honor, truth, and morality have been sacrificed at the altar of autonomy and self-worship.

Morality was never a means of salvation for anyone. The moral threads of a life were intended to reflect and honor the God we serve; they are not a means of entering Heaven.

Well, the old English tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a famous one.

Live rightly, die nobly.

Morituri te salutant!

Let mortals never take a vow in jest; Be faithful and not blind in doing that, As Jephthah was in his first offering

All a man can betray is his conscience.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

Yiddish mensch becomes a clear approbative, a man of honor and integrity, but it also means a real, a genuine person, someone who is even possibly flawed but has known travail, yet has come through not only

Rise above principal and do what's right.

All over the world, boys on every side of bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down their young lives.