Quotes About Honor

The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.

Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die, Oh, what matter, when for Erin dear we fall.

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!

Render therefore to all their dues.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

God give us men. A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands! Men whom the lust of office does not kill, Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy, Men who possess opinions and a will, Men who love honor, men who cannot lie.

Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din.

There are three classes of men-lovers of wisdom, lovers of honour, lovers of gain.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

Every man has his moral backside too, which he doesn't expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

Morality is not respectability.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.

But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.

By evil report and good report.

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never.... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it, I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

Chivalry is the most delicate form of contempt.

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake, sweet, but not nourishing.