Honor Quotes
2471 Honor quotes by 1608 unique authors
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Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not…
— George Santayana
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Integrity is crucial for business success - once you can fake that, you've got it made.
— Henry Ford
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Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.
— John Dryden
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High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.
— Euripides
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Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.
— Euripides
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Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.
— Euripides
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Even a poor man can receive honors.
— Sophocles
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Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he…
— Epictetus
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that…
— Adrienne Rich
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Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth…
— Michael Josephson
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You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an…
— Herbert Hoover
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We would rather starve than sell our national honor.
— Indira Gandhi
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Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.
— Epicurus
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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind…
— James Dickey
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Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.
— Sean O'Casey
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We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is officially recorded, confirmed, a single wrong to humanity, a…
— Charles Peguy
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Just as a person is commanded to honor and revere his father, so he is under an obligation to honor and revere his teacher, even…
— Maimonides
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While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Wealth and honor, benefits and blessings shall enrich my life; poverty and failures, grief and anxiety shall help fulfill it. In my life, I will…
— Zhang Zai
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I honor God that much in the way I play. That's why I never believe in getting tired. I don't even know what that word…
— Ray Lewis
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I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge…
— Becki Newton
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As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just…
— David Nail
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Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort…
— Richard Neal
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We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the…
— Frank Ocean
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