Quotes
Quotes about Honor
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright; to have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mock'ry.
It is in the character if very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Envy is honors foe.
What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered. [Lat., Male parta, male dilabuntur.]
Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.
In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash-- Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.
It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. â¢Hermann Hesse Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. â¢Harriet Lerner Treasure your relationships, not your possessions. â¢Anthony J D'Angelo Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. â¢Richard M DeVos Without relationships, no matter how much wealth, fame, power, prestige and seeming success by the standards and opinions of the world one has, happiness will constantly eluded him. â¢Sidney Malwed Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. â¢Albert Schweitzer The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one. â¢Joan Baez For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship. â¢Warren Beatty The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smellsâand he smelled real nice. â¢Sandra Bullock My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons. â¢Lord Byron In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. â¢Angela Carter I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging. It wouldn't be right to make it look too easy. â¢Helen Hunt If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. â¢Octavio Paz The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands. â¢Alexandria Penney It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, but it is the little differences that make them interesting. â¢Todd Ruthman When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring. â¢Bob Seger If you're in a relationship and you want to make it work, you have to be a little selfless at times. â¢Montel Williams Assumptions are the termites of relationships.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
He was not born to shame. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned Sole monarch of the universal earth.
In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free,--honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve.
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
O that a soldier so glorious, ever victorious in fight, Passed from a daylight of honor into the terrible night; Fell as the mighty archangel, ere the earth glowed in space, fell-- Fell from the patriot's heaven down to the loyalist's hell!
Thou know'st, great son, The end of war's uncertain, but this certain, That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name Whose repetition will be dogged with curses, Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble, But with his last attempt he wiped it out, Destroyed his country; and his name remains To th' ensuing age abhorred,' Speak to me son. Thou hast affected the fine strains of honor, To imitate the graces of the gods; To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' th' air, And yet to change thy sulphur with a bolt That should rive an oak.
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
