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Quotes About Honor

Most excellent man, are you…not ashamed to care for the acquisition of wealth and for reputation and honor, when you neither care nor take thought for wisdom and truth and the perfection of your soul?
~ Socrates
considerable amount in consideration of his services in
~ Solomon Northup
To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.
~ Solomon Ortiz
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
~ Solon
Where there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.
~ Sonia Sanchez
Lies were lethal, however honourable the intentions of the liar. They deprived people of the opportunity to know the basic facts of their own lives.
~ Sophie Hannah
Would you mind dreadfully if I put you in a book one day?
~ Sophie Hannah
And you keep them all locked in? These visiting carriers? - They're always watched - But not locked in? The honor is specific to me? - You did try to brain me.
~ Sophie Jordan
It is not righteousness to outragea brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
~ Sophocles
The rewards of virtue alone abide secure.
~ Sophocles
Nobly to live, or else nobly to die,Befits proud birth.
~ Sophocles
No speech can stain what is noble by nature.
~ Sophocles
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
~ Sophocles
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.
~ Sophocles
Heroes are the saints of every nation.
~ Sorin Cerin
Were there but one virtuous man in the world, he would hold up his head with confidence and honor; he would shame the world, and not the world him.
~ South
Do the right thing
~ Spike Lee
Worldy honor hath also its grace, and the power of overcoming, and of mastery; whence springs also the thirst of revenge. But yet, to obtain all these, we may not depart from Thee, O Lord, nor decline from Thy law.
~ St. Augustine
For so great is the influence of probity and chastity, that all men, or almost all men, are moved by the praise of these virtues; nor is any man so depraved by vice, but he hath some feeling of honor left in him. So that, unless the devil sometimes transformed himself, as Scripture says, into an angel of light, he could not compass his deceitful purpose.
~ St. Augustine
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
your body may lie in a far off land or under a stormy sea .Your soul it rose to be with God to a place we cannot see. YOUR sprit (MACE) roams in this land from sea to glimmering sea. BUT YOUR HEART WILL ALLWAYS BE HERE AT HOME WITH THOSE YOU (MACE) YOU GAVE ALL TO BE FREE. MY DAD' S SHIP WAS HIT 5 TIMES IN WWII HE IS WITH MACE NOW I CANT WAIT TO GET THERE LOVE YA ALL PHIL
~ Staff Sgt. Clint Romesha
Let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.
~ Starhawk
in the general throng, many a fool receives decorations and titles.
~ Stefan Zweig
I regarded it more as an honor than a disgrace to be permitted to share this fate of the complete destruction of literary existence in Germany with such eminent contemporaries as Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Werfel, Freud, Einstein, and many others whose work I consider incomparably more important than my own
~ Stefan Zweig