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Quotes About Honor

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.
~ Joseph Hall
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
~ Laurence Sterne
In days gone by, a man's word was his bond. Today, fortunately, we have glue.
~ Lev L. Spiro
Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.
~ Charles James Fox
They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie.
~ Doug Larson
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
~ Edmund Burke
Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Close your legs to married men.
~ NeNe Leakes
A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.
~ Pietro Aretino
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can say that American men and women in the Military are damn impressive.
~ Henry Rollins
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
~ Andre Malraux
Of the things men give each other the greatest is loyalty.
~ Ben Hecht
How dare you ever in ya life walk past me without acknowledging their man as God.
~ LL Cool J
The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.
~ Lupe Fiasco
Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle.
~ Janet Morris
Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.
~ Jeff Bridges
Never underestimate the capacity of noble young men to do incredibly foolish things for perfectly good reasons.
~ Jennifer Fallon
History is littered with dead good men
~ Joe Abercrombie