Quotes About Honor

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

A man who does not forget an agreement is resolved and honorable man.

Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.

Men of principle are sure to be bold, but those who are bold may not always be men of principle.

The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man.

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.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

Remember men, you are fighting for the ladies honor, which is probably more than she ever did.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

Try first to be a man of value; success will follow.

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.