Quote: No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. Author: Calvin Coolidge 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA
Quote: I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace. Author: Pierre Corneille 1606-1684, French Dramatist
Quote: Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil. Author: John Dryden 1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic
Quote: The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive. Author: Bruce J Freidmen
Quote: Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman
Quote: The post of honor is a private station. Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman
Quote: Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it. Author: Akhenaton BC -~1375, Egyptian King, Monotheist
Quote: You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Author: James Allen 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''
Quote: The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death. Author: Bhagavad Gita c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata
Quote: A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. Author: Nicholas Boileau 1636-1711, French Literary Poet, Critic
Quote: I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Author: Julius Caesar 101-44 BC, Roman Emperor
Quote: It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win. Author: Orson Scott Card American Author
Quote: All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. Author: Andrew Carnegie 1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist
Quote: A person dishonored is worst than dead. Author: Miguel De Cervantes 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Honor is the reward of virtue. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: Honor lies in honest toil. Author: Grover Cleveland 1837-1908, Twenty-second & 24th President of the USA
Quote: Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor. Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher
Quote: Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. Author: David Hare 1947-, British Playwright, Director
Quote: When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity. Author: Ben Jonson 1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet
Quote: Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences. Author: Midori Koto
Quote: The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. Author: Norman Mailer 1923-, American Author
Quote: The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. Author: Bernard Mandeville 1670-1733, Dutch-born British Author, Physician
Quote: Honor is simply the morality of superior men. Author: H. L. Mencken 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist
Quote: Death rather than disgrace. Author: Motto
Quote: Let my honor be without stain. Author: Motto
Quote: It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough. Author: Scott O'Grady
Quote: Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others. Author: Pliny The Elder c.23-79, Roman Neophatonist
Quote: Act well your part; there all honor lies. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor. Author: Proverb
Quote: Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows. Author: Proverb
Quote: One may survive distress, but not disgrace. Author: Scottish Proverb Sayings of Scottish Origin
Quote: Without money honor is merely a disease. Author: Jean Racine 1639-1699, French Dramatist
Quote: The higher the culture the more honorable the work. Author: Roucher
Quote: Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor. Author: Johann Friedrich Von Schiller 1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian
Quote: Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: Why should honor outlive honestly? [Orthello] Author: William Shakespeare 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor
Quote: He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer
Quote: No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not. Author: Publilius Syrus 1st Century BC, Roman Writer
Quote: Better not be at all than not be noble. Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: 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. Author: Alexis De Tocqueville 1805-1859, French Social Philosopher
Quote: It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep? Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. Author: Woodrow T. Wilson 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA
Quote: There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty. Author: Woodrow T. Wilson 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA