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Quotes About Honor

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.
~ Confucius
If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?
~ Confucius
The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.
~ Decimius Magnus Ausonius
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
~ Edmund Burke
The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.
~ Epicurus
Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.
~ Frances Wright
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.
~ Frederick Douglass
The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven.
~ Friedrich Schiller
If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.
~ George W. Melville
The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
~ George Washington
Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.
~ George Washington
You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.
~ Grenville Kleiser
Do no dishonor to the earth lest you dishonor the spirit of man.
~ Henry Beston
The happy result of detachment is inner freedom, freedom from worry about bodily comfort, honor, and wealth. Considering
~ Teresa of Avila
Tengo para mí que honras y dineros casi siempre andan juntos, y que quien quiere honra no aborrece dineros, y que quien los aborrece que se le da poco de honra.
~ Teresa of Avila
The Ranger creed: "No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a-comin'.
~ Terri Reed
The only politician ever to have entered parliament with honourable intentions, was Guy Fawkes.
~ Terry Deary
praise is offered based on God's worthiness, not your needs,
~ Terry Law
Viewing my ministry as a mercy means I don't have to serve the Lord, I get to do it!
~ Terry Powell
as far as he can on the ice. Or rm TFMW e h length of a conversation between two pards don't tell nothin' about the length of the friendship. Steriing loyalty to friends is required by the code of life. Ask no more and give no less
~ Texas Bix Bender
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~ Texas Guinan
Lay aside the thirst for honor from others and seek to honor others instead
~ the omani shed
He who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong.
~ The Talmud
The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own.
~ The Talmud