Honor Quotes - Page 45

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

The number of those endowed with human life is as small as the amount of earth one can place on a fingernail. Life as a human being is hard to sustain--as hard as it is for the dew to remain on the grass. But it is better to live a single day with honor than to live to 120 and die in disgrace.

The Hours is in fact a lovely triumph. Cunningham honors both Mrs. Dalloway and its creator with unerring sensitivity, thanks to his modesty of intention and his sovereignly affecting prose.... With his elliptical evocation of Mrs. Dalloway, he has managed to pay great but quiet tribute -- reminding us of the gorgeous, ferocious beauty of what endures.

It's not the honors and not the titles and not the power that is of ultimate importance. It's what resides inside.

Servants honor their master by their service.

Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.

Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.

No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

Men make their choice: one man honors one God, and one another.

Everything happened very quickly in my career. It was a very great honor for me to break Jim Clarks record (as youngest champion).

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.

Honor a good woman because she is virtuous and honorable.

It was an honor to coach him. He should be proud of what he did this year.

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

Ohhhso hard to say, but George Harrison was pretty darn special. Such a great guybeautiful person and amazing songwriter/musician. A real honor for me to have played on his last tour

Judge [Samuel] Alito should see criticism as a badge of honor worn by many past and present members of the Court.

I must honor those who fight of their own free will, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

A person cannot be a Marine without honor.

Internet Explorer, your honor, is the fruit of Microsoft's statutory violations and it should be denied them.

Faith is loved and honored by God more than any other single thing.