logo

Quotes About Honor

Friendship is selfless love, care, respect, and honor not a profitable opportunity.
~ Santosh
Some honored me by giving me the secret of their works
~ Sappho
O Kypris and the Nereids, I pray you to sail my brother home unharmed and let him accomplish all that is in his heart and be released from former error and carry joy to his friends and bane to enemies and let no one bring us more grief. Let him honor me his sister. But black torment suffering for early days, citizens accused. Was it over millet seed? Pure Kypris, put aside old anger and free him from evil sorrow
~ Sappho
If for things good and noble thou wert yearning, If to speak baseness were thy tongue not burning, No load of shame would on thine eyelids weigh; What thou with honour wishest thou wouldst say.
~ Sappho
Well," he said, "I'm guessing your client is either a magician or a pervert. And I mean both of those terms with the highest respect.
~ Sara Gran
I am a lady-in-waiting, and she is the princess. No, the empress. The empress of the world.
~ Sara Ryan
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." -Benjamin Franklin.
~ Sara Shepard
Now you know who bows down to whom. - Emma
~ Sara Shepard
So what if she wasn't a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn't wear her heart on her sleeve? She had done everything she had done for the best. For king and country.
~ Sara Sheridan
There's nothing like a military man, even out of uniform.
~ Sara Sheridan
To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than your own.
~ Sarah Arthur
A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
~ Tacitus
We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
~ Willard Libby
I get cranky real easily. So the honor of it and the wonder of it all and everything has a hard time overcoming the petty annoyances; I mean, that's simply the reality of being alive, I guess.
~ Frank Stella
I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.
~ Jack Kirby
I remember the first time I put on the Army uniform. I just felt like a totally different person - I felt proud.
~ Jessica Lynch
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
~ Voltaire
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
~ Martha Graham
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
~ Jonathan Mayhew
It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.
~ Charles Schumer
Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings.
~ Kathy Bates
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero