Quotes
Quotes about Honor
Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Fortune, the great commandress of the world, Hath divers ways to advance her followers: To some she gives honor without deserving; To other some, deserving without honor; Some wit, some wealth,--and some, wit without wealth; Some wealth without wit; some nor wit nor wealth.
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happyâcommon clay, if you likeâeating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the othersâthe noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station.
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.
Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never re-enter it once we are on the outside. [Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords; On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]
Honor is like a widow, won With brisk attempt and putting on.
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought. [Lat., Semper in fide quid senseris, non quid dixeris, cogitandum.]
Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to have done, and let the sense of honor subdue your mind. [Lat., Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit Occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.]
Honor lies in honest toil.
Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.]
Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune, there is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved. [Lat., Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se porte le reste de mon infortune, de toutes choses m'est demeure que l'honneur et la vie qui est sauve.]
Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I resign; The post of honor shall be mine.
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
