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Quotes About Honor

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.
~ Brenda Lee
The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Though the Holy Spirit is God, equal in essence to the Father and the Son, yet his role is consistently to defer honor, to seek to bring about the glory of another.
~ Bruce A. Ware
I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.
~ Carl Schurz
I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
~ Dan Fouts
Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.
~ Tryon Edwards
To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.
~ Laozi
We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.
~ Vance Havner
It's an honor to paint cats.
~ Oliver Johnson
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
~ David McCullough
Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.
~ Dominique Wilkins
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country.
~ Douglas MacArthur
Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.
~ Edmund Clarence Stedman
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
~ Edward Cocker
I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me.
~ J. B. Torrance
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block.
~ Laozi
The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.
~ Robert Lloyd
Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world.
~ George Washington
How can we scramble away like rats, without honor, without dignity, when everyone must help rebuild the country?
~ Thanhha Lai
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld