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Quotes About Honor

Worry that is either untrusting or distracting is very dishonorable to God. It
~ Thomas Watson
On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!
~ Thomas William Parsons
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
~ Thornton Wilder
the master of the house don't pinch decent, self-respecting girls when he meets them in a dark corridor. I mention no names and make no charges.
~ Thornton Wilder
After all, a girl's biggest asset is her virtue.
~ Thrity Umrigar
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
~ Thucydides
Great is the glory of the woman who occasions the least talk among men, whether of praise or of blame.
~ Thucydides
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
~ Thucydides
Such veneration, however, is not accorded to the person himself because of his own greatness, but rather is accorded to the teaching that the teacher embodies and exemplifies.
~ Thupten Jinpa
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
~ Tieck
He is not dead who departs this life with high fame; dead is he, though living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
~ Tieck
I tell their stories here to do all of them some small honor. Their lives and, sometimes, their deaths speak to what we are capable of as average people in the face of evil and horror.
~ Tilar J. Mazzeo
The dead should be allowed to rest in peace.
~ Tilly Bagshawe
He would rather see you living a life that was honoring to Him, rather than making mistakes and repenting of them repeatedly.
~ Tim Baker
There are many roads to dignity, and one is called character—
~ Tim Dorsey
that Young Irelandism will lead you to." "It may lead me to danger. But it will guard me from dishonor.
~ Tim Egan
The real tough guys? They don't have to cheat. They get it done before the whistle.
~ Tim Green
We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.
~ Dan Webster
I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot.
~ Phoebe Waller-Bridge
All first responders do noble work, and all of them deserve our respect and our appreciation.
~ William Barr
Better not be at all than not be noble.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
~ Carlo Goldoni
Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
~ Pat Oliphant
It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.
~ Sophocles