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Quotes About Honor

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Morality and honor are not to be confused. "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
~ H.L. Mencken
What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.
~ Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.
~ Edward Hirsch
Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
~ Patricia Polacco
It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.
~ Aretha Franklin
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
~ Benjamin N. Cardozo
We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
~ Bob Ney
You should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too.
~ Michael Oher
I have lived as plain Mr. Jinnah and I hope to die as plain Mr. Jinnah. I am very much averse to any title or honours and I will be more than happy if there was no prefix to my name.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
~ Ralph Stanley
I don't care about going down in history as a great bull rider or bronc rider. I hope people will remember me as a great cowboy.
~ Ty Murray
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I hope you don't get known for nothing crazy, cause no man ever wants to hear those stories bout his lady.
~ Drake
Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When left holding an empty bag, fill it with dreams of honor and glory!
~ T.A. Cline, Archomai
It's an honor to have been considered for the team, and I hope that in the future I will have the chance to represent my country by playing for U.S.A. Basketball.
~ Kawhi Leonard
I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
We have a saying in the Marine Corps and that is 'no better friend, no worse enemy, than a U.S. Marine.' We always hope for the first, friendship, but are certainly more than ready for the second.
~ John F. Kelly
The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.
~ James Russell Lowell