Quotes About Honor

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor.

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

Love your country and fight for your country. Believe in truth, and that is enough

I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.

When you put your hand on the Bible, you are saying something much stronger than just telling your peers that you're going to tell the truth.

I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.

It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one — the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country.

It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?

Never break faith with the truth.

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.

The army of Truth is the real Invincible Armada. Truths are always destined to be victorious.

The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't 'light and nice,' it's light and truth.