Honor Quotes

2471 Honor quotes by 1608 unique authors

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. — George Bernard Shaw
I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a… — Sidney Sheldon
You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other,… — Carly Simon
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… — Samuel Smiles
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it. — Sonia Sotomayor
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it… — Thomas Sowell
Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used… — Sylvester Stallone
Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs… — Charles Stanley
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current. — Laurence Sterne
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. — Adlai E. Stevenson
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… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society. — Barbra Streisand
This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks… — Matt Taibbi
And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with him that I want to give him the honor and glory anytime… — Tim Tebow
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. — Lionel Trilling
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it… — Harry S. Truman
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. — Mark Twain
I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly… — Jim Valvano
I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the… — Iyanla Vanzant
What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson… — Iyanla Vanzant
You have to defend your honor. And your family. — Suzanne Vega
I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the… — Jesse Ventura
Who sows virtue reaps honor. — Leonardo da Vinci
I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I… — Ayelet Waldman

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