Honor Quotes

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well.

~ Mo Ibrahim

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

~ Michael Scheuer

There's more honor in investment management than in investment banking.

~ Charlie Munger

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

~ Maya Angelou

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

~ Aristotle

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

~ Rebecca Harding Davis

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

~ James T. Walsh

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

~ Socrates

To the factory farmer, in contrast to the traditional farmer with his sense of honor and obligation, the animals are 'production units,' and accorded all the sympathy that term suggests.

~ Matthew Scully

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

~ O. J. Simpson

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

~ Lincoln Steffens

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

~ John Woo

The promise I've tried to honor my entire career, that the rule of law and the design of the founders, right, the oversight of courts and the oversight of Congress will be at the heart of what the FBI does.

~ James Comey

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.

~ David Duchovny

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

~ Geronimo

You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.

~ George Tenet

When I was growing up, I was so fascinated by Mel Blanc and all of the different voices that he did for 'Looney Tunes' and watching Robin Williams record voice-over for the genie in 'Aladdin.' It always seemed to be a major honor - something you have to earn. Like people trust you when they want to have you there without seeing you.

~ Jenny Slate

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

~ Dick Gephardt

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

~ Herbert Hoover

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

~ Herbert Hoover

It was an honor and privilege to arrive to this country 16 years ago with almost no money in my pocket. A lot has happened since then.

~ Antonio Banderas

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

~ Plato

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

~ Hermann Hesse

Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.

~ Garcelle Beauvais

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

~ Joe Paterno

Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

~ Billy Collins

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

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor both the rational and the irrational elements of poetry.

~ Edward Hirsch

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

~ Ira Hayes

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

~ H. L. Mencken

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

~ Douglas Macarthur

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

~ Benjamin N. Cardozo

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

~ Bob Ney

I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.

~ Linda Ronstadt

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill