Quotes About Honor

The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

It's a really neat and special coincidence, but it's nothing but a coincidence. This wasn't set up to give Matt that honor. It's just the way it worked out. It's a neat extra.

If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.

Honor is unknown in despotic states.

To strip our past of glory is no great loss, but to deny it honor is devastating.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.

We can never make too much of Christ. He is worthy of all the honor that we can give Him.

Are you calling me a weirdo? Highest honor I can bestow.

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.

Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide.

I honor and protect my sensitivity.

I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.

...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.

Defend my honor - Protect my pride

An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

Look around you. It's an honor to fight beside you. Today we choose to fight. For the freedom to fight on other days. So we remember what's worth fighting for.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.

Everyone honors the wise.

Honor commerce as the engine of change.

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.