Honor Quotes

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
Richard M. Nixon

Peace, War, Long

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
James Allen

Courage, Mind, Greatest

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
Ricardo Montalban

Love, Politics, Good

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
Desiderius Erasmus

Great, Cannot, Wealth

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott

Life, Men, Mean

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.
Bruce Jay Friedman

Women, Wife, Friend

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Zhuangzi

Men, Knowledge, Lies

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer

Winning, Small, Gain

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
Walter Scott

True, Perfection, Virtue

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Friedrich Schiller

Nation, Worthless, Gladly

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
Lord Chesterfield

Truth, Live, Long

And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity. And then right after I give him the honor and glory, I always try to give my teammates the honor and glory. And that's how it works because Christ comes first in my life, and then my family, and then my teammates.
Tim Tebow

Life, Family, Him

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

Care, Real, Everybody

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland

Honest, American, Fact

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.
Brian Eno

Hidden, Intention, Error

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Charles Baudelaire

Understand, Hands, Newspaper

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
Andrew Carnegie

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee

Work, Power, Leader

The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.
Marco Rubio

Peace, Today, Simple

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
Laura Schlessinger

Life, Happiness, Courage

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.
Michael Phelps

Time, History, Try

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
T. E. Lawrence

Hard, Escape, Dignity

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
Xun Zi

Power, Reflection, Coming

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Robert Redford

Politics, Art, Soul

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
Ann Landers

Success, Sure, Defeat

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
Zora Neale Hurston

Nature, Great, Held

Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.
Allen West

Integrity, Country, Nation

What is left when honor is lost?
Publilius Syrus

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
Eldridge Cleaver

Great, Wrong, Nation

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Pierre Corneille

Happiness, Live, Forced

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