Quotes About Honor

I'm strictly an enlisted man's girl.

A man can dignify his rank; no rank Can dignify a man.

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

It is the duty of every man to uphold the dignity of every woman.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

England expects every man to do his duty

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley

The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

The legislature have anxiously provided for those most useful and deserving body of men, the seamen and marines of this country.

Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.