Quotes About Honor

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

in China, where no man gets a title until he is dead; and that is a better way, after all, than with us. When a man does something very good there, they give a title of nobility to his father, who is dead, or to his grandfather.

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory—nothing so expensive as glory.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

Saint and Martyr rule from the tomb.

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness.

Posterity gives every man his true value.

I am free. I am one of the few free people in this country of utterly transparent slavery. A slavery covered by a sloppy coat of contemporary varnish. I have fought a long and bloodless battle for this pitiable personal freedom. I fought for my freedom against the temptations, ambitions, and appetites witch drive everyone blindly on the slaughterhouse. To the so-called modern slaughterhouse for human dignity, honor, and for something else, too, which we forgot about a long time ago.

U was te? s? dobrzy, m?drzy, starzy ludzie. -Bywali u nas szlachetni, rozumni, godni starzy ludzie.

Reputation is made in a moment. Character is built in a lifetime.

No sooner did Hide have this thought than he rejected it. He could no longer indulge in self-doubt. His lord had appointed him to this post. To doubt his ability to carry out his duties was to doubt his lord. Loyalty demanded that he believe in himself because the lord believed in him. When he experienced one of his many faults, he must not endeavor to correct himself, to become the man his lord saw within him. Such was his obligation. He stood. His posture straight and confident.

So you want to die honorably? You are being selfish. Each and every person you killed had his own life. Whether that life was blessed or not ... everyone is born into this world ... they grow up ... some people have family ... some are alone in this world ... some have young children ... some are engaged ... some have pets ...some people have high hopes and great dreams ... other have no ambition at all and you ended everything for them Takezo.

Even if there is dishonor in the truth, Chevalier, less that dishonor if one confesses it in defence of his person.

Dame Catriona. Det fikk henne til å virke veldig viktig, men hun følte seg bare forvirret. For en utrolig ære å bli tildelt for en som hadde startet livet bakerst i en malt varietevogn.

It takes an awfully good man... to beat no man at all." - Tillie