Honor Quotes

An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.

I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.

Honor commerce as the engine of change.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.

Defend my honor - Protect my pride

Everyone honors the wise.

If you are a woman who honors God right where you are, you are in ministry.

The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

Making money doesn't oblige people to forfeit their honor or their conscience.

It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.

My honor is dearer to me than my life.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Honour always wins, it is inevitable.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

I've been busy for a long, long time. I've received a ton of awards in the past few years ... I think they're really great, it's really an honor, but s**t - I really have to work for these things.

We just kind of did our own thing and got made fun of by the popular kids. It was kind of like a badge of honor to be an outcast.

Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.

Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.

Well, if you pick a fight with somebody that's smaller than you and you beat them, where's the honor in that?

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

We should honor the Savior's declaration to "be of good cheer." (Matthew 14:27) Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!

A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.

All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused.

The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country. It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

Do not keep the slanderer away, treat him with affection and honor: Body and soul, he scours all clean, babbling about this and that.

The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation And I did it with honor.

I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

Happy Cinco de Mayo. In honor of Cinco de Mayo, mayor Bill de Blasio is filling all New York City potholes with guacamole.

It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.