Quotes About Honor And Dishonor

#1. Each partner, in fact, shares in the honor and dishonor of the other.

Teresa Of Avila

#2. Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause.

George Whitefield

#3. Once she said the world was an astonishing animal: light was its spirit and noise was its mind. That it was composed to feed on honor, but did not.

Jack Gilbert

#4. Samurai are born to die.
Death is not a curse to be avoided
but the natural end of all life. Death is not eternal ... dishonor is.

Rick Remender

#5. It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

Matthew Henry

#6. There is no thing called dishonor. No thing called honor. There is only winning. Only losing. And if you lose, you don't leave a freshly made bed for your enemy to sleep in.

Lesley Livingston

#7. Verily, there is no dishonor in death at the hands of a far superior enemy.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#8. There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.

Garth Stein

#9. Loving a warrior is hard. Dying in the line of duty is an honor to them. They would rather take that road than to dishonor their sacred oath

Ronie Kendig

#10. If God in all of His infinite power and love were real to us, the opinions of men, either for or against us, and the honor or dishonor they may bestow would shrink into nothingness in comparison.

Dave Hunt

#11. These warriors of the Sacred Band were inscrutable; they loved their war and death and picking through the bones of time to sort out right from wrong, good from bad, holy from profane, honor from dishonor.

Janet Morris

#12. Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

Nathaniel Branden

#13. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor. They died so as not to die of embarrassment.

Tim O'Brien

#14. Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.

Herman Melville

#15. Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.

Moliere

#16. No Son [ ... ] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.

Ruta Sepetys

#17. Death with honor is better than life ... life with dishonor.

David Henry Hwang

#18. It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

Sathya Sai Baba

#19. Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor ...

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

Jim Bakker

#21. There is no dishonor in wisdom.

James Welch

#22. There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power.

Robin Hobb

#23. They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. It was what had brought them to the war in the first place, nothing positive, no dreams of glory or honor, just to avoid the blush of dishonor.

Tim O'Brien

#24. Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

Tad Williams

#25. One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

Oswald Spengler

#26. Honor is a trophy for the wise;
dishonor is a crown for fools.
A good reputation in the sight of men is precious;
a good name in the sight of God is priceless.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#27. There are so many other fun ways to dishonor the family name that buying girls' underwear shouldn't be one of them.

Rin Chupeco

#28. We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.

Vance Havner

#29. Honor sometimes means doing something very unwise. Behaving like an idiot is better than dishonor. To this day I blush for having chosen sensible restraint over common decency.

Amelie Nothomb

#30. When our characters show us the full fire of that inner battle, we have the makings of great fiction. For whether the choice is ultimately for honor or dishonor, we will see the consequences and the reader will be instructed without being taught.

James Scott Bell

#31. There was dishonor, she decided, in accepting someone else's idea of honor without question.

Marie Rutkoski

#32. But nothing else escapes all-ruinous time.
Earth's might decays, the might of men decays,
Honor grows cold, dishonor flourishes,
There is no constancy 'twixt friend and friend,
Or city and city; be it soon or late,
Sweet turns to bitter, hate once more to love.

Sophocles