Quotes About Honor

#1. Money was evil, beauty vain, and both were transitory. Ambition was pride, desire for gain was avarice, desire of the flesh was lust, desire for honor, even for knowledge and beauty, was vainglory. Insofar as these diverted man from seeking the life of the spirit, they were sinful.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. Honor does not have to be defended.

Robert J. Sawyer

#3. It is the ultimate honor for a coach to be his country's coach.

Mike Krzyzewski

#4. One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

Mary Antin

#5. Hillbilly culture at the time (and maybe now) blended a robust sense of honor, devotion to family, and bizarre sexism into a sometimes explosive mix.

J.D. Vance

#6. Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.

Henry Ford

#7. People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can.

Cristina Henriquez

#8. It is a great honor for me to be presented the award by Mikhail Gorbachev and also to be acknowledged with the World Actress Award at the Women World Awards Gala 2005.

Teri Hatcher

#9. Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so he is under an obligation to honor and revere his teacher, even to a greater extent than his father; for his father gave him life in this world, while his teacher instructs him in wisdom, secures for him life in the world to come.

Maimonides

#10. There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.

William Bolcom

#11. In a span of months she had present for birth and for death, the wondrous first breath and the horrible last. But wasn't it an honor to be there at the end of life as well as the beginning? To mark the extraordinariness of a lifetime, to bear witness to its completion?

Rae Meadows

#12. There is no shame in loving who you love, and there is great honor in doing what is right. It's a pity those two things don't overlap for us, but that makes this moment no less important to me.

Kiera Cass

#13. To represent your country is an honor and a great experience.

Michelle Kwan

#14. Choosing to honor the tidal nature of life, I do not push for artificial solutions born of haste and indiscretion. I allow the universe to unfold with divine timing. I attune myself to the tempo of my highest good.

Julia Cameron

#15. That each day that you love, honor, and respect your own unique point of view, you're a step closer to finding a fortune.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#16. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I,
To mourn, and murmur and repine,
To see the wicked placed on high,
In pride and robes of honor shine.
But oh, their end, their dreadful end,
Thy sanctuary taught me so,
On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand,
And fiery billows roll below.

Isaac Watts

#18. HONOR IS RESPECT. INTEGRITY EARNS BOTH

Lorenzo Victory

#19. Eighth letter : The purpose of life is to love

How well you live comes to how much you love. The heart is wiser than the head. Honor it. Trust it follow it.

Robin S. Sharma

#20. 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.

William Shakespeare

#21. In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.

John Sergeant Wise

#22. Every noble house had its words. Family mottoes, touchstones, prayers of sorts, they boasted of honor and glory, promised loyalty and truth, swore faith and courage. All but the Starks. Winter is coming, said the Stark words.

George R R Martin

#23. As you preach, stay in the text, give honor to Christ and He will use you

Steven J. Lawson

#24. Honor," she said. "The point is honor.

George R R Martin

#25. Do me the very great honor of becoming ... the person who'll cook me lovely things to eat, who'll cheer me up when I'm miserable, who'll tell me no and mean it ...

Barbara Elsborg

#26. Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

George Santayana

#27. Physical courage to a person of honour is easier and less risky than acts that could subject him to embarrassment or humiliation or a diminished career or reputation. These things he must live with. To die for honor is an easier thought to bear.

Michael Josephson

#28. Let me be clear: we are still a nation of immigrants, and we honor all those immigrants who are working hard to become new citizens.

William J. Clinton

#29. Please, I'm your friend -- inside that tough-girl shell is a really tough girl. But you're motivated by how much you care. Being part of Team Lois, it's an honor. There's nothing you wouldn't do for any of us.

Gwenda Bond

#30. The fundamental question in everything we do must be: Will this honor God? Does this display Jesus Christ? Does this make people see how awesome the LORD is? Failure to answer "Yes!" invites Ichabod. I have many, many wonderful

James MacDonald

#31. This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

Dan Quayle

#32. Honor is Surplus Dignity: Honor, at its simplest, is that excess dignity that must be defended with the knife or sword. Wherever honor is at issue, it comes with a sense that dignity can be lost, and therefore must be constantly defended.

David Graeber

#33. Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Brian Jacques

#34. Developing the skill of creativity, like with any other skill, takes time. Do devote time to creativity. Honor its flow and its magic. Allow it to become your Life Force. Train Creativity daily.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#35. You are so right, my love, she thought in wild despair. No man, no king, no ghost is strong enough to come between us; only the indominable splendor of your honor, your pride, and your passion can accomplish that.

Marsha Canham

#36. The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.

Stormie O'martian

#37. The music that inspires the souls of lovers exists within themselves and the private universe they occupy. They share it with each other; they do not share it with the tribe or with society. The courage to hear that music and to honor it is one of the prerequisites of romantic love.

Nathaniel Branden

#38. Defend my honor protect my pride the good advice i always hated but looking back it made me greater .. u make me laugh u make me hoarse from yelling at you and getting at u ...

Nicki Minaj

#39. We've been so busy with these things we let ourselves think actually mattered, but they don't. There's no such thing as the right career, or morality, or destiny, or fate. There's only life. And whether you honor it or ignore it. It's ironic, but in trying to find God we've been ignoring life.

Trevor D. Richardson

#40. Lord, bring honor to thy Son at my expense, whatever the cost, and send me the bill. It is my reasonable service - He paid mine.

Carl Baugh

#41. The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to honor our feelings by working to transform them into something meaningful and lasting.

Edward Hirsch

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

Teresa Of Avila

#43. My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time ... Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.

Neville Chamberlain

#44. And I told you, I'm not going to pursue another man's girlfriend. You want to talk honor. There it is in its purest form

Richelle Mead

#45. You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain.

Masashi Kishimoto

#46. From Clara Barton's tireless work founding the American Red Cross to the first female Medal of Honor winner, Dr. Mary Walker, to our first female combat fighter pilot Lt. Kara Hultgreen, no list of American heroes is complete without the names of some of these extraordinary women.

Brian Kilmeade

#47. If you wish to serve me, as you have bloodsworn yourself to do, you must do so with honor. And that does not include introducing yourself by name to people like my mother in order to terrify them into submission."
"Kem'falla - " Gaelen protested.
"Don't bother to deny it," she snapped.

C.L. Wilson

#48. Using this novel method, doctors could treat female patients without violating the honor of her family.

Jack Weatherford

#49. Esteem your friends,
revere your teachers,
honor your parents,
regard your supporters.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#50. Of course, for me, having served 22 years in the military and to have the opportunity to continue to serve my country is a great honor and is a privilege. So that's what makes it special each and every day.

Allen West

#51. He has trifled with the sacred memory of my husband," thought the Professor's widow. "On my life and honor, I will make him pay for it.

Wilkie Collins

#52. Winning 'Best Vlogger of 2013' from MTV is a really wonderful honor, and I wanted to thank all of you out there that used your fingers and clicked a button and made this happen, and to all of you that accidentally clicked my name and you were trying to click Jack and Finn, I'm sorry.

Grace Helbig

#53. Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

Jacqueline Carey

#54. This world is twisted beyond hope, when lowborn smugglers must vouch for the honor of kings.

George R R Martin

#55. Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.

Hosea Ballou

#56. We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.

Jane Goodall

#57. I was in the mood to make out in the back row of the movie theater with someone who did not know my first name. I wanted three guys to fight for the honor of buying me a drink

Jodi Picoult

#58. I think it's a great honor to win an Oscar but I think if you aim to be rewarded in your life you'll get nowhere. I think that the biggest reward is the work itself and what you get out of it and the connections you make with other people.

Natalie Portman

#59. Victory with honor and integrity is the real goal of sport. Sometimes it happens that others are better than you. I could never beat Carl Lewis in a hundred-yard dash, but my victory might be in running faster today than I did yesterday.

Don Sparks

#60. It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Jimmy Carter

#61. To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#62. Guilty, Your Honor, but only of minor transgressions. My motto is, 'Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness keep you from your books.

Irving Stone

#63. How soon human beings forget what a privilege it is to live in freedom. A privilege, not an honor. An honor would mean we deserved it. We do not.

Walter Kirn

#64. True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.

James Ellis

#65. The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#66. Kingship wrought of Infinite worship,
Quick-forged by the Swift Sure Hand;
Bold in Righteousness,
Valiant in Justice,
A sword of honor to defend the clans of Albion!

Stephen R. Lawhead

#67. What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good.

Dion DiMucci

#68. A honeymoon is, after all, a sex vacation you're giving yourself after a massive party in your honor.

Mindy Kaling

#69. A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid.

Alfonso Cuaron

#70. Consort," I said. "You honor us."
"Fuck you," Dali said. "Fuck your shit. I quit.

Ilona Andrews

#71. Take it, and cut your brother's throat with it, and take back the honor of your blood.

Cassandra Clare

#72. On my honor, I will do my best
To do my duty To God and my country

Boy Scouts Of America

#73. Our sense of honor is responsible for our exaggerated sensitiveness and touchiness; and if there is the conceit in us with which some foreigners charge us, that, too, is a pathological outcome of honor. Have

Inazo Nitobe

#74. Socrates smile was devastating. It's been my honor to introduce you to the woman you were meant to be.

Red Phoenix

#75. I have such respect for ... the Kennedy Center Honors. To be an artist in America and to be honored for it is extraordinary. In Europe, they really honor their artists. And you are on a very high level. And here it's not as revered as it is in Europe or Russia or anywhere in the world.

Patricia McBride

#76. We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

William Ellery Channing

#77. Reputation depended often on the smallest of actions, the daily decisions made with honor and responsibility, not the huge drama of heroic battles.

Diana Gabaldon

#78. It's not our rule to forgive but it's our honor to forgive justly".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#79. I, too, shall seek honor. But I shall seek it where I know it will be found.

Lloyd Alexander

#80. I think that Ring of Honor is a true alternative in the world of pro wrestling. Some of the best in-ring pure competition in the world you will find in Ring of Honor.

Adam Cole

#81. Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.

David Horsey

#82. Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Patrick Dempsey

#83. I have great relationships with all my exes, and everyone in my life, because I honor the time and the love and the energy of those relationships. I'm happy to say that I can have everybody over for dinner.

Kevin Drew

#84. I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.

Kathleen Turner

#85. Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

William Davenant

#86. We must honor our differences while we find our own courage and our own strength the best we know how.

Jennifer Roy

#87. The power of the Dark Side cannot be dispersed among the masses. It must be concentrated in the few who are worthy of the honor.

Drew Karpyshyn

#88. In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives' honor. If

Geraldine Brooks

#89. [defines a madman as] a man who preferred to become mad,in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor.

Antonin Artaud

#90. Because they weren't just fighting for their own honor. They were also fighting for the honor of six good men who could no longer stand up for themselves. Doing right by those men wasn't a choice, it was a duty.

Laura Kaye

#91. Worship without honor is meaningless

Sunday Adelaja

#92. Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#93. Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space.

Rob Bishop

#94. Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

Brian Eno

#95. Always - from all companies, high or low - she went forth richer in honor and esteem than when she came.

Mark Twain

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

John Paul Jones

#97. We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think, is a different thing entirely, difficult for anyone but the historians and the gods to judge.

Megan Whalen Turner

#98. Music is a plane of wisdom, because music is a universal language, it is a language of honor, it is a noble precept, a gift of the Airy Kingdom, music is air, a universal existence common to all the living.

Sun Ra

#99. The kingdom to come includes not just worship but righteousness (ethics), communion (society), authority (politics), and "the glory and honor of the nations" (culture).

Russell D. Moore

#100. He who has achieved this state Is unconcerned with friends and enemies, With good and harm, with honor and disgrace. This therefore is the highest state of man.

Laozi