Honor Quotes

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.

Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.

Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.

Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them.

But to those who kept saying "It can't be done," Never are the victories Or the honors won. But, rather, By the believing, doing kind, While the doubters Watched from far behind.

Only the poor are handicapped by honor.

Dedicated to the future, with honor to the past.

Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor- not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.

Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.

The Four Agreements 1. Be impeccable with your word. 2. Don’t take anything personally. 3. Don’t make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.

Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

To serve Mary and to be her courtier is the greatest honor we can possibly possess; for to serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there; and to live under her command is more than to govern.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Remember that this greatness was won by men with courage, with knowledge of their duty, and with a sense of honor in action.

Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.

The only thing that ever made me want to be a wife-beater is being called one. Your honor, can I have five minutes to make her not a liar, please?

The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.

It's like church over here. It's like church in here. First of all, give an honor to God and our Lord and Savior Barack Obama.

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.

When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

It was his soul's freedom that was in question. And that question was whether freedom was worth the price when it meant shirking the responsibilities of honor.

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.

To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths.

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar. There is no honor in lying.

Do good under all circumstances, but with no care for any profit, or any blessedness, or any damnation, or any salvation, or any martyrdom; but all you do or omit should be for the honor of Love.

Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

There is never one absolutely right thing to do. All you can do is honor what you believe, accept the consequences of your own actions, and make the best out of what happens.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.