Quotes About Honor

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

What is birth to a man if it shall be a stain to his dead ancestors to have left such an offspring?

Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

To get through a war, a man needs something bigger than himself to fight for.

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash.

No man can fall into contempt but those who deserve it.

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.

When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

Let a man nobly live or nobly die.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

To live with glory, or with glory die, This is the brave man's part.

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men.

Why not be a man and fight like a man.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.