Quotes About Honor

He who borrows will have to pay again with shame or loss.

He who has no shame before the world has no fear before God.

He who leaves a good name does not die poor.

Look at the man you serve and you will see how much you are esteemed.

So you want to be a man? You will become a man on the day that you profoundly respect every woman you meet.

The age of a man doesn't determine his respect on earth.

The first duty of a woman in her all life is to obey.

The man who is looking for a wife will not speak contemptuously of women.

What attracts a man's attention does not guarantee his respect.

Unbelievers are experts at self-approval. They invent their own standards, and then they use these standards to judge themselves wise. But to be found wise in this manner is a meaningless honor.

Revelation 4:11 says, "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.

It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work...and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after.

As long as rivers shall run down to the sea, or shadows touch the mountain slopes, or stars graze in the vault of heaven, so long shall your honor, your name, your praises endure.

Because I don't think I have a handle on how to write for grown-ups. The grown-up publishing world is so fraught with one-upsmanship, scorn and snobbery. I did write an adult novel. Thank goodness it went out of print. I think we kids' authors still start out with hope every morning. We honor our audience.

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than rewarded for betrayal

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.

The world has become a better place in which to live because of persons who have made it a habit to try to do the right thing only because it was right.

Then Ardent, heavy hearted, turned away; sore for the rusted armor and the wasted days: but as Sir Constant saw his shield, and lo! the lost Emblem of the King was shining once more through its veil of dishonor. For the heart's tears of sorrow had fallen upon the shield, and where they had fallen they had burned away the shame and stain.

Let us honour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.

Let us honor if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.

She always paid a high price for her dignity.

We yield at once with humbled mien, Because, with all our faults, we love our Queen.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.