Honor Quotes

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
George Washington

Good, Evil, Place

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

Great, Hope, Freedom

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
Albert Einstein

Turn, Forever, Sound

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle

Courage, Mind, Greatest

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

Life, Far, Precious

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
William Shakespeare

Men, Live, Country

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
William Shakespeare

Soul, Sin, Covet

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Live, Confidence, Honesty

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens

Christmas, Heart, Try

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Socrates

Live, Greatest, Pretend

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran

Death, Stranger, Land

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams

Nature, Ignorance, America

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles

Win, Cheating, Fail

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
Aristotle

Love, Truth, Friends

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.
Aristotle

Truth, Friends, Above

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
John Lennon

Few, Escape, However

I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
Lloyd Banks

Loyalty, Important, Seriously

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
Bradley Whitford

Life, Love, Hope

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher

Nature, Good, Money

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw

Truth, Enough, Energy

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato

Men, Wisdom, Three

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest Hemingway

Art, Death, Artist

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

Between, Moral, Regrets

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Samuel Smiles

Life, Success, Struggle

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. Mencken

Men, Simply, Morality

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!
Ken Hensley

God, Future, Happy

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Human, Lie, Down

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Aeschylus

Men, Character, Envy

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
Mitt Romney

Life, Marriage, Religion

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