Quotes About Honor

Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.

To act to justify the suffering of your parents is to remember all the sacrifices that all the others who lived before you (not least your parents) have made for you in all the course of the terrible past, to be grateful for all the progress that has been thereby made, and then to act in accordance with that remembrance and gratitude. People sacrificed immensely to bring about what we have now. In many cases, they literally died for it—and we should act with some respect for that fact.

People sacrificed immensely to bring about what we have now. In many cases, they literally died for it—and we should act with some respect for that fact.

Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.

So, simply stop, when you apprehend, however dimly, that you should stop. Stop acting in that particular, despicable manner. Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.

Tu nunca vai mudar, meu bem. Tua única presunção é tua honra. Mas eu já comi ela uma vez, vou comer outra… Por mais professora que você seja, meu bem, na vadiação é minha aluna. E eu vim para acabar de te formar…

La historia nos bautizó con fuego de deshonor, y aquel terrible sufrimiento inicial hará probablemente más densas nuestras almas, porque en el dolor nos hacemos, ya que en el placer nos gastamos.

sólo los cobardes son valientes con sus mujeres.

El hipócrita no aspira a ser virtuoso, sino a parecerlo; no admira intrínsecamente la virtud, quiere ser contado entre los virtuosos por las prebendas y honores que tal condición puede reportarle.

Trocan su honor por una prebenda y echan llave a su dignidad por evitarse un peligro; renunciarían a vivir antes que gritar la verdad frente al error de muchos.

I honor the father in his son, not the son in his father. Each one receives a reward or punishment for his deeds, but not for the acts of others.

In the Philippines you are not considered to be honorable unless you have been to jail.

To fall with the head high and the brow serene is not to fall. It is to triumph. The sad thing is to fall with the stain of dishonor.

I honour the father for the merit of his son, but I don't honour the son because of the father. Let everyone be rewarded or punished because of what he himself does, not what others do.

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

My annual pilgrimages to the dead involve a good deal of talking to myself (which serves as my principal internal gyroscope) and increasingly confirm that the older I get the more the dead take hold of me. I like the notion that my heart is a temple of memory in which they intermittently reside. I feel compelled, in some way or other, to complete their lives, to honor their gifts and sacrifices.

There are a sort of knight-errants in the world, who, quite contrary to those in romance, are perpetually seeking adventures to bring virgins into distress, and to ruin innocence. When men of rank and figure pass away their lives in these criminal pursuits and practices, they ought to consider that they render themselves more vile and despicable than any innocent man can be, whatever low station his fortune or birth have placed him in.

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

To be perfectly just is an attribute in the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,The post of honor is a private station.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.