Honor Quotes - Page 32

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

And that’s about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor. To die knowing we did everything we could.

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

I'd much rather be part of a society which greatly honors and respects people who are altruists and who are effective in their altruism, than one that either admires people because they're, you know, celebrity movie stars or because they're super wealthy just no matter what they do with their wealth because I think we ought to try to encourage more people to act in that way.

I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

It's an honor to paint cats.

Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.

The European Union's finished. It doesn't work. You know, we just had the honor in Britain of being the first country that rejected membership. You know, you could be next. It could be Denmark next. It could be Dexit.

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?

A person dishonored is worst than dead.

John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that I am most excited about. Mickey is one of the Club's dearest friends, and we wanted to honor him in the way we know best.

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Physical courage to a person of honour is easier and less risky than acts that could subject him to embarrassment or humiliation or a diminished career or reputation. These things he must live with. To die for honor is an easier thought to bear.

We honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.