Honor Quotes - page 2

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor. (Grover Cleveland)
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned. View quote
Herbert Hoover
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. View quote
Thomas More
My honor is my loyalty. View quote
Heinrich Himmler
The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
I can be forced to live without happiness, But I will never consent to live without honor. View quote
Pierre Corneille
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. View quote
Joseph Conrad
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute to those who were not fortunate enough to succeed, but who shared the signal honor of trying to the last to salvage peace. (Rene Cassin)
Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way? View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that! View quote
Ken Hensley
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath. View quote
Harry Houdini
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Ability without honor is useless. View quote
Cicero
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. View quote
Robert E. Lee
It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager. View quote
Kenny Dalglish
RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
YOUTH, n. The Period of Possibility, when Archimedes finds a fulcrum, Cassandra has a following and seven cities compete for the honor of endowing a living Homer. (Ambrose Bierce)
The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand.' View quote
Ben Jonson
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. View quote
Joseph Addison
An honor is not diminished for being shared. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold