Honor Quotes

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Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom… — George Gissing
No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters,… — James Henley Thornwell
I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and… — Kara Lindsay
Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson
Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of character, possessing a… — Unknown Author
One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived. — Paul Bourget
Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so… — Thomas Jefferson
Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice, and plain dealing, and never fear their… — Thomas Jefferson
I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone… — Karl G. Maeser
True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and… — David O. McKay
Truth must be the foundation stone, the cement to solidify the entire social edifice. — Pope John Paul II
Your character is your destiny. — Unknown Author
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! — Oscar Wilde
Honor is better than honors. — Abraham Lincoln
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Spiritual illumination and perspective are poured out through the windows of heaven and into our lives as we honor the law of tithing. — David A. Bednar

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