Quotes
Quotes about Honor
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
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.
Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.
A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. The Brothers Karamazov .
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
The bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly nest; And she that doth most sweetly sing, Sings in the shade when all things rest: In lark and nightingale we see What honor hath humility.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides, Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.]
Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desireâ ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.
I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
There's something in't More than my father's skill, which was the great'st Of his profession, that his good receipt Shall for my legacy be sanctified By th' luckiest stars in heaven; and would your honor But give me leave to thy success, I'd venture The well-lost life of mine on his grace's cure By such a day and hour.
Value of a man depends upon his courage; his veracity depends upon his self-respect and his chastity depends upon his sense of honor.
The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side. [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores, Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.]
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout.
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station.
