Quotes About Honor

A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.

If you want to call a man to account, don't do it when he is weak; call him to account when he is strong! Cowards choose the first way and the valiant choose the second way.

No man is a man without high morals and ethics.

What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality.

When your enemy falls to the ground, help him to get up! Never let a man in that condition stay on the ground! To help the weak, be it enemy, be it rival, is an honour for you!

He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.

How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

Honor?" "Yes." "I'm going to do things to you now that a good girl definitely shouldn't let a man do to her.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

The military is sort of the ultimate test of proving that you're a man, and certainly that whole idea was very much uppermost in my mind when I joined the Army.

Honor, thou strong idol of man's mind.

I am no herald to inquire into men's pedigree; it sufficeth me if I know their virtues.

... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.