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Arthur Schopenhauer

The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.

David Borenstein

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.

POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 193.

Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

Richard Milhous Nixon

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. (On the Vietnam War)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Honor has not to be won it must only not be lost.

African Proverb

Where there is no shame, there is no honor.

Sophocles

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Joe Moore

Marriage love, honor, and negotiate.

Jewish Proverb

Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.

Publilius Syrus

What is left when honor is lost

Hermann Hesse

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.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.

Marguerite de Valois

A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.

Euripides

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Herbert Hoover

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Fulton John Sheen

It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.

Midori Koto

Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

E.C. STEDMAN: _Beyond the Portals,_ Pt. 10.

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed Your sustenance and birthright are.

Jeb Stuart Magruder

I know what I have done, and Your Honor knows what I have done. ... Somewhere between my ambition and my ideals, I lost my ethical compass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.

Alice Walker

I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Blaine Lee

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

Jean Sibelius

Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic

Sir Walter Besant

You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.

SHAKS.: _Troil, and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

Honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path.

Joe Paterno

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor.

Herbert Clark Hoover

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

Joe Paterno

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

Kahlil Gibran

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

MASSINGER: _Maid of Honor,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

--He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it; And at the best shows but a bastard valor.

Douglas MacArthur

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.

WILLIAM COLLINS: _Ode in 1746._

There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay.

Herbert Clark Hoover

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

La Rochefoucauld

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

Grover Cleveland

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

Homer

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

TENNYSON: _Idyls, Elaine,_ Line 884.

His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.

John Ruskin

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honor that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

Thornton

I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on a charge of kleptomania, I do steal, but, your Honor, only from the very best stores.

GOLDSMITH: _Traveller,_ Line 91.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

BURNS: _Ep. to a Young Friend._

The fear o' hell's a hangman's whip To hand the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor grip, Let that aye be your border.

Steven Wright

I went to court for a parking ticket. I pleaded insanity. Isaid, "Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park inthe passing lane?"

Kahlil Gibran

The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

But in their stead Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.

SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright. To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery.

Homer

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

Joseph Addison

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act i., _Chorus._

O England!--model to thy inward greatness, Like little body with a mighty heart,-- What mightst thou do, that honor would thee do, Were all thy children kind and natural!

SCHILLER: _Honor to Women._

Honor to women! to them it is given To garden the earth with the roses of Heaven.

Eric Sevareid

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

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

"In thy heart is truth; in truth is honor; in honor is life."

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Honor does not have to be defended.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

What is left when honor is lost?

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

My child is not an honor student.

Objection, your Honor! My client is an idiot!

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.

We are wise when we learn from one another. We are strong when we contain our impulses. We are honored when we honor others.

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the marjority of men live content.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

"Honor those the dragons heed, in thought and favor, word and deed."

"An honor to meet you, Mr. Paverotti." Capt. Jack Brim to Arturo

"I will sing a dirge in your honor and wear your skin with pride."

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

"Piety requries us to honor truth above friends." - Aristotle

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

"As I go forward, I hold my sword high in honor of you."

"...for duty, for honor, Colonel, for all mankind..." - Eisen

"Ability without honor has no value." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The post of honor is a private station." -- Addison

"Better to die a thousand deaths than wound my honor." - Addison

"All that remains now is honor and death" - Alite Deeron.

"Dr. McCoy. Will you do the very great honor of eating my shorts?"

"I always said he'd come to no good in the end your honor" -Pink Floyd