Honor Quotes: Timeless Wisdom on Integrity and Valor (Page 2)

"He who has lost honor can lose nothing more"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"What is left when honor is lost?"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

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

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"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

"Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

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

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"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

"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

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

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

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

Isaac Newton, Mathematician

"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

"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

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

Aeschylus, Playwright

"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

"Who sows virtue reaps honor"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"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

"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

"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, Author

"Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"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

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

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

"Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero"

David D. Burns, Writer

"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

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