Honor Quotes

To be dignified and distinguished give honor and dignity to others.

~ Sunday Adelaja

He who does not know how to receive another person, honor him and provide common help is not considered to be worthy of deserving honor from others

~ Sunday Adelaja

Death is not scary enough and not so sweet life of the human foot leaves gentility.

~ Imam Ali (As)

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, ‘she is my betrothed.’'Sometimes one and the same thing,' said Morrel, with a smile.'Not with us, sir,' replied Dantes.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Fed by neither Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward . . . He hadn't a God or a lover--the two usual incentives to virtue. But on he struggled with his back to ease, because dignity demanded it. There was no one to watch him, nor did he watch himself, but struggles like his are the supreme achievements of humanity, and surpass any legends about Heavan.

~ E.m. Forster

Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the only one to comprehend you. And had she crossed your path, and you had crushed her like a frail glass, still, Edmond, still she must have admired you! Like the gulf between me and the past, there is an abyss between you, Edmond, and the rest of mankind; and I tell you freely, that the comparison I drew between you and other men will be one of my greatest tortures. No! there is nothing in the world to resemble you in worth and goodness!

~ Alexandre Dumas

When honor and glory get your squad killed and your brothers-in-arms shoved under the rug, you stop believing in the terms.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

It was made out to be some kind of honor, giving your life for the good of humanity, but it was really just a reminder that cyborgs were not like everyone else.

~ Marissa Meyer

It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind

~ Martin Mcdonagh

Honor, vengeance, that rigorous religion, those punctilicious codes of conduct - how to explain their existence here, at the end of the world, among people who possessed nothing but the rags and the lice they had on them?

~ Mario Vargas Llosa

The substance of every true and stable political organism is something resembling an Order, a Männerbünd in charge of the principle of the imperium, comprising men who see loyalty as the basis of their honor.

~ Julius Evola

It is an honorable charge to shine the lightand stand up for what is true, just, and right.Guardians of Light know innately that whenever we insert honor, love, and truth into any experience, we shall always remove pain.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

The man on the rise must always show respect to the man on the decline.

~ Kamar Brown

Sometimes the heart of a weary soul needs a simple moment of love and light shined upon it, or reflected back to it. That momentary connection might be the one thing that inspires a person to take one more step and move in a positive new direction.

~ Molly Friedenfeld

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

~ Dagobert D. Runes

Cheating was a concept both foreign and integral to the fighting of wars.

~ Tom Clancy

See, being a person is kind of random and arbitrary business. You may have noticed that. And you need to believe in something to keep it from being too random and arbitrary to handle. Some people take religion, or success, or patriotism, or family, but for a lot of guys those things don't work. A guy like me. I don't have religion or family that sort of thing. So you accept some system of order, and you stick to it.

~ Robert B. Parker

Damn the wars but bless the soldier.

~ T.l. Moffitt

The only chains you should wear in life are the chains of commitment.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There is another life both for you and for me,’ said I. ‘If it be the will of God that we should sow in tears now, it is only that we may reap in joy hereafter. It is His will that we should not injure others by the gratification of our own earthly passions; and you have a mother, and sisters, and friends who would be seriously injured by your disgrace; and I, too, have friends, whose peace of mind shall never be sacrificed to my enjoyment, or yours either, with my consent; and if I were alone in the world, I have still my God and my religion, and I would sooner die than disgrace my calling and break my faith with heaven to obtain a few brief years of false and fleeting happiness—happiness sure to end in misery even here—for myself or any other!

~ Anne Brontë

Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.

~ Harry Truman

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

With no doubt Al Hussain was one of the greatest rebels, for correcting the path of rulers who deviated from the right path. He, by his stance honorably acquired martyrdom martyrdom that free people wish to acquire.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Those who boast about honor shouldn't lack in it.

~ Drake R. Todd

I know precisely what honor is, Heracles. Honor is the artifice kings sell the peasants’ sons so that they may fight and die without pay. Honor is what drives a peaceful man to bloody vengeance. Honor is what drove the Celts to behead the children of the Apache Courts.

~ Bes

First and foremost, they had the curses of the country: and Sir Murtagh Rackrent, the new heir, in the next place, on account of this affront to the body, refused to pay a shilling of the debts, in which he was countenanced by all the best gentlemen of property, and others of his acquaintance; Sir Murtagh alleging in all companies that he all along meant to pay his father's debts of honour, but the moment the law was taken of him, there was an end of honour to be sure. It was whispered (but none but the enemies of the family believe it) that this was all a sham seizure to get quit of the debts which he had bound himself to pay in honour.

~ Maria Edgeworth

I know precisely what honor is, Heracles. Honor is the artifice kings sell the peasants’ sons so that they may fight and die without pay. Honor is what drives a peaceful man to bloody vengeance. Honor is what drove the Celts to behead the children of the Apache Courts.- (The Egyptian God) Bes

~ Jonathan Maas

After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough, I quietly stole away from the company and retired to the library. Mr. Hargrave followed me thither, under pretence of coming for a book; and first, turning to the shelves, he selected a volume, and then quietly, but by no means timidly, approaching me, he stood beside me, resting his hand on the back of my chair, and said softly, ‘And so you consider yourself free at last?’‘Yes,’ said I, without moving, or raising my eyes from my book, ‘free to do anything but offend God and my conscience.

~ Anne Brontë

We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.

~ Leigh Bardugo

Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know.

~ Bryant Mcgill

... we honor the people we lost by loving again.

~ Marie Force

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

~ Rin Chupeco

We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too.

~ John Green

We fear God by honoring, reverencing, and cherishing Him. His greatness and majesty reduce us to an overpowering sense of awe that is not focused only on His wrath and judgment but also on His transcendent glory , which is like nothing else we can confront in this world. It leaves us all but speechless.

~ David Jeremiah

It ain't life that left you no choice, its honor!

~ Ryk Brown

You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.

~ Alice Hoffman

The most honorable part of a network are the hubs, not the nodes that lead to nowhere.

~ Ryan Lilly

It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.

~ Lynn Flewelling

It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive, the filth you cannot see.

~ Jocelyn Murray