Quotes with honor

  • I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
  • Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
  • The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
  • 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.
  • I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
  • The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
  • 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 willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
  • Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
  • Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
  • The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
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  • John Howe Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • William Shakespeare As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • James Allen Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Ability without honor is useless.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Joseph Addison Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Thomas Hardy Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Joseph Addison He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • William Shakespeare Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bernard Mandeville If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • William Shakespeare If it be a sin to covet honor I am the most offending soul alive.
    Henry V
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • George Santayana 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 willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Bernard Mandeville The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Joseph Addison The post of honor is a private station.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Candice Millard 'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bruce Friedman A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
    Bruce Friedman
     
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  • Walter Savage Landor A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Alexander Pope Act well your part; there all honor lies.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Winston Churchill All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Joaquin Miller All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.
    Joaquin Miller
     
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