Quotes About Honor

I mean that I would rather die knowing I tried to do the right thing than live knowing I had turned my back. Do you understand?

It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.

It was the first time I had suspected that the government would ever do such a thing. Believe me, reader, it shook me. I had always been brought up carefully to believe that, in government, truth, decency and honor were inseparable.

Opt for a few at your side, but ensure your honor and respect of all.

I never cheat. I practice Gamesmanship - the art of winning games without actually cheating.

It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

'Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.

The world oftener rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.

Whatever care we take to conceal our passions under the appearance of piety and honor, they are always to be seen through these veils.

There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit.

Tu ne leur ferais pas l'injure de tes hommages

A man should respect a man for who he is, not for the rank he wears

A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions.

In the hospital, there also was a man trying to look as if he had been wounded. I asked him what was the matter, and he said he just couldn't take it. I gave him the devil, slapped his face with my gloves and kicked him out of the hospital. Companies should deal with such men, and if they shirk their duty they should be tried for cowardice and shot. I will issue an order on this subject tomorrow.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

Che cosa può fare un soldato quando la pietà è tradimento?

To be accepted, honored, loved, like someone's child. And since they couldn't have any of it, it all took the form of spite. Anyone who has ever been excluded can understand what they felt, and no one has ever been quite so excluded as they.

Glory can be safely despised by those only who have fairly won it.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Patriotic?" Will looked smug. "I'll tell you what's patriotic," he said. "In honor of my birthplace, I've the dragon of Wales tattooed on my—