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Honor Quotes

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There is no shame in going out fighting and getting your ass kicked, but there is no honor in not fighting at all.
The Undertaker

There is no disgrace in battling and being defeated, but there is no glory in abstaining from the fight.
Authors on Honor Quotes: William Shakespeare Laozi Ralph Waldo Emerson Francois de La Rochefoucauld Aristotle Abraham Lincoln George R. R. Martin Thomas Jefferson Plato Joseph Addison Marcus Tullius Cicero Pope Francis Michel de Montaigne Janet Morris Benjamin Franklin Barack Obama Francis Quarles Cassandra Clare Winston Churchill George Washington Ben Jonson Charles Spurgeon Ambrose Bierce Mark Twain Miguel de Cervantes Confucius Niccolo Machiavelli Homer George W. Bush Thomas Carlyle Seneca the Younger Thomas S. Monson Thomas a Kempis
2.
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur

"Obligation, Integrity, Nation. Those three sacred phrases reverently dictate what you should be, what you are capable of being, and what you will become."
3.
Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his bosom... He who rebels against our Father is condemned to death, for that which we do to him we do to Christ: we honor Christ if we honor the Pope; we dishonor Christ if we dishonor the Pope.
St. Catherine of Siena

4.
Any man who has been given the honor of being promoted to general and who says, "I will protect another general who protects Communists," is not fit to wear that uniform, general.
Joseph McCarthy

'Any officer who has been granted the privilege of being elevated to general and who states, "I will safeguard another general who safeguards Communists," is not worthy of donning that uniform, general.'
5.
Poor is the nation that has no heroes,
but poorer still is the nation that having heroes,
fails to remember and honor them.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Miserable is the nation that lacks heroes, yet more wretched is the nation which having great figures, neglects to recognize them.
6.
Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?
Mary Oliver

7.
I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.
John Knox

I sought no status, fame, or wealth; my wish was that Jesus Christ should be glorified.
8.
Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
Rudyard Kipling

Guard against excessive preoccupation with wealth, status, or fame. Eventually you will encounter someone who holds none of these things in high esteem. Then you will understand the depths of your impoverishment.
9.
That nothing's so sacred as honor and nothing's so loyal as love.
Wyatt Earp

Nothing is as revered as integrity and nothing is as steadfast as affection.
10.
When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.
Frederic Bastiat

11.
Honor the hands that harvest your crops.
Dolores Huerta

Respect the laborers who cultivate your produce.
12.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles

Rather perish with dignity than achieve victory through deceit.
13.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Julius Caesar

I esteem the appellation of honor more than I dread expiry.
14.
My honor is my loyalty.
Heinrich Himmler

My fidelity is my pride.
15.
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour.
Hannibal

16.
If we fight for money, I'll stop hitting you when you ask me to. If we fight for honor, I'll stop hitting you when I feel like it.
Rickson Gracie

'If we fight for wealth, I'll cease striking you when you request me to. If we battle for integrity, I'll halt my blows when it pleases me.'
17.
The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.
Alexander Hamilton

The prestige of a nation is its existence. Willingly to renounce it is to perpetrate an act of political annihilation.
18.
Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.
Maimonides

19.
As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.
Ptolemy

20.
Every occupation has its own honor before God. Ordinary work is a divine vocation or calling. In our daily work no matter how important or mundane we serve God by serving the neighbor and we also participate in God's on-going providence for the human race.
Martin Luther

21.
Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his work, honor our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him.
Matthew Henry

22.
Honor your self. Worship your self. Meditate on your self. God dwells within you as you.
Swami Muktananda

23.
Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.
Mike Rowe

24.
I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.
Geronimo

25.
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.
Nichiren

26.
Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
John Brown

27.
The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.
Martha Graham

28.
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
Johann Sebastian Bach

29.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
Madeleine L'Engle

30.
The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.
Enver Hoxha

31.
I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family.
Robert Downey, Jr.

32.
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
Dennis Banks

33.
When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.
Chester W. Nimitz

34.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest Hemingway

35.
We must never mistake the process for the result...there is suffering; but this is only the process. God isn't going to stop with the process; He wants to produce the final result. Suffering leads to glory; shame leads to honor; weakness leads to power. This is God's way of doing things.
Warren W. Wiersbe

36.
A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.
Winston Churchill

37.
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
Jessica Savitch

38.
I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me.
William Tyndale

39.
Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory.
Angela Merici

40.
A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not.
Bill Johnson

41.
It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
Branch Rickey

42.
A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
Abraham Lincoln

43.
It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.
Matthew Henry

44.
What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.
Origen

45.
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
Ben Jonson

46.
Islam is a vibrant faith. Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions. Our enemy does not. Our enemy doesn't follow the great traditions of Islam. They've hijacked a great religion.
George W. Bush

47.
Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.
Tallulah Bankhead

48.
When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His own honor to our advantage; we make ourselves more glorious than God, as though we were not made for Him, but He made for us; this is to have a very low esteem of the majesty of God.
Charles Spurgeon

49.
Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold.
Thomas Brooks

50.
If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.
Theodore Roosevelt