Quotes About Honor

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

A gallant man is above ill words.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

Brave men die in battle.

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

I shall show that the place does not honor the man, but the man the place.

A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled.

He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Bushido is in being crazy to die. Fifty or more could not kill one such a man.

A brave man is seldom unkind.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

Let every man teach his son, teach his daughter, that labor is honorable.