Honor Quotes

It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.

~ Aretha Franklin

Thus they have an idol that they petition for victory in war; another for success in their labors; and so for everything in which they seek or desire prosperity, they have their idols, which they honor and serve.

~ Hernan Cortes

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

~ George B. Mcclellan

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

~ Ann Landers

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

~ Julius Caesar

Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.

~ Sylvester Stallone

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

Honor lies in honest toil.

~ Grover Cleveland

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

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.

~ Emily Post

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

~ Isaac Newton

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

~ David Mallet

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.

~ Bernard De Mandeville

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

~ Robert Green Ingersoll

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

~ Khalil Gibran

Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.

~ Ray Charles

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

~ John Singleton

I have spent my adult life working in American intelligence. It has been quite an honor. Generally well resourced. A global mission. No want of issues. And it was a hell of a ride.

~ Michael Hayden

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

~ Vartan Gregorian

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

~ Suzanne Vega

I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.

~ Felicity Jones

Honor your daughters. They are honorable.

~ Malala Yousafzai

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

~ Joseph Conrad

We should live, act, and say nothing to the injury of anyone. It is not only best as a matter of principle, but it is the path to peace and honor.

~ Robert E. Lee

For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

~ Fedor Emelianenko

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

~ Andrew Jackson

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

~ Richard M. Nixon

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

~ Grover Cleveland

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

~ Douglas Macarthur

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.

~ Michael N. Castle

It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it.

~ Lupe Fiasco

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

~ George H. W. Bush

It was amazing for me to even perform at the Grammys, but to do so alongside Annie Lennox was a truly incredible honor.

~ Hozier

I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.

~ Shaun White

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

~ Eric Sevareid

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

I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.

~ Carol Shea-Porter

We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.

~ Saint Ignatius

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

~ Zhuangzi