HONOR

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(904 votes)  Why should honor outlive honestly? [Orthello]

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(876 votes)  The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(862 votes)  It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(711 votes)  You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

James Allen
1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''

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(664 votes)  Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

Akhenaton
BC -~1375, Egyptian King, Monotheist

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(660 votes)  The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(649 votes)  A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep?

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(597 votes)  The post of honor is a private station.

Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(588 votes)  Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Joseph Addison
1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

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(580 votes)  Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Charles Caleb Colton
1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

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(564 votes)  The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(564 votes)  A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(561 votes)  Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(549 votes)  A person dishonored is worst than dead.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(548 votes)  A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor.

Proverb

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(531 votes)  Honor is the reward of virtue.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(529 votes)  No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer

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(526 votes)  Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(517 votes)  Act well your part; there all honor lies.

Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

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(515 votes)  Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.

Proverb

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(515 votes)  He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer

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(509 votes)  All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Andrew Carnegie
1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist

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(504 votes)  I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

Pierre Corneille
1606-1684, French Dramatist

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(504 votes)  Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(497 votes)  Let my honor be without stain.

Motto

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(496 votes)  Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
1759-1805, German Dramatist, Poet, Historian

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(492 votes)  Death rather than disgrace.

Motto

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(492 votes)  Better not be at all than not be noble.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(491 votes)  Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

Norman Mailer
1923-, American Author

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(489 votes)  No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA

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(486 votes)  There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

Woodrow T. Wilson
1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

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(485 votes)  For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(483 votes)  When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

Ben Jonson
1573-1637, British Dramatist, Poet

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(479 votes)  Without money honor is merely a disease.

Jean Racine
1639-1699, French Dramatist

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(479 votes)  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 when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social Philosopher

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(477 votes)  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
1670-1733, Dutch-born British Author, Physician

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(475 votes)  Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

Pliny The Elder
c.23-79, Roman Neophatonist

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(474 votes)  The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

Woodrow T. Wilson
1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

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(472 votes)  I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Julius Caesar
101-44 BC, Roman Emperor

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(470 votes)  Honor lies in honest toil.

Grover Cleveland
1837-1908, Twenty-second & 24th President of the USA

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(463 votes)  Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

Nicholas Boileau
1636-1711, French Literary Poet, Critic

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(457 votes)  Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

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(453 votes)  Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer
1788-1860, German Philosopher

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(451 votes)  To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

David Hare
1947-, British Playwright, Director

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(449 votes)  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 J Freidmen

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(441 votes)  Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

Midori Koto

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(439 votes)  It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.

Orson Scott Card
American Author

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(437 votes)  It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough.

Scott O'Grady

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(437 votes)  The higher the culture the more honorable the work.

Roucher

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(429 votes)  "Without honor, we have nothing."

Nathaniel Fondell
Scholar

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