Honor Quotes

"Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

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

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"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, President

"Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

"The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

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

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

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

Alexander Pope, Poet

"Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"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 its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it"

Andrew Jackson, President

"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, Novelist

"If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government"

George Will, Journalist

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

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

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

Aeschylus, Playwright

"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, Novelist

"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, Novelist

"Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"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"

Joseph Addison, Writer

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

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist