Quotes About Honor

A man who does not see any value of self-respect goes on his knees before the woman.

A man who truly craves for his respect will always find it difficult to go along in love with a woman.

A man's demonstration of self-respect is to never go down on knees before a woman and his self-protection is to stay away from a person who does or asks the people to do such demeaning, kneel down acts.

A person who is truly worth to own nice words and good deeds on the earth will take pride only when receiving award or reward from the upright master in the honorable vocation, not from the servant who may be occupying the chief position for the servility reason.

A topmost position may be honorable, but that does not mean that a person occupying that coveted post for long is also respectable.

Real man sees it a shame to go down on own knees to please or propose own love to a woman.

Salute to someone is not often respect but only responsibility.

Salute with hand palm touching the forehead is not respect for the authority unless and until it is offered from own heart in fact.

The only quality every woman looks for in a guy that he should never try to keep his head high meaningby to always lie down on his knees and bow before her.

The pleasure and pride is in receiving the award, reward and prize from the hands of a true master and not servant who might be sitting on a very high, powerful position.

And at the end, when Scott himself lay dying, he wrote to Mrs. Wilson: "I can do no more to comfort you, than to tell you that he died as he lived, a brave, true man—the best of comrades and staunchest of friends.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name.

Happiness is a thing which calls for honor rather than for praise.

Be studious to preserve your reputation; if that be once lost, you are like a cancelled writing, of no value, and at best you do but survive your own funeral.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

While both [Plato and truth] are dear, piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Tea Party adherents seemed to arrive at their dislike of the federal government via three routes--through their religious faith (the government curtailed the church, they felt), through hatred of taxes (which they saw as too high and too progressive), and through its impact on their loss of honor.

At the core, to be a man you had to be willing to lose your life in battle, willing to use your strength to protect the weak. Who today was remembering all that?

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.