Quotes About Honor

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.

Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country, and the malign-ers of his honor.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.

Praise the wise man behind his back, but a woman to her face.

There is a certain noble pride, through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.

The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.

Let them know a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do.

He will hew to the line of right, let the chips fly where they may.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

Then out spake brave Horatius, The captain of the gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?"

I count him lost, who is lost to shame.

O shame! Where is they blush?

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

Home they brought her warrior dead.