Quotes About Honor

Respect everyone if you want to be respected.

To be respected, respect others.

Military service is not just a vocation. It is a way of life, an attitude that you carry in your heart even after you are discharged.

Being insulted again and again it doesn't mean that you haven't self respect. It means that you value someone most.

To be worthy of recognition, be humble.

True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost.

Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.

The song says respect yourself.But I would rather respect another and then have them respect me in return.

True beauty is not in your face or in your dress but in your dignity.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

POW 369, I should salute you from this heart of mine. And thank you for placing your life on the line.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor.

If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.