Honor Quotes

• In a tournament, even though there are team scores, it's calculated and it's a lot more individual. There is more honor to say you're not just better than the opposing schools' wrestler, you're the best wrestler in your weight class. Plus there are lot more awards to win in a tournament.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Team
  • Winning
  • Individual

• I've had the honor of working with so many trans people as a hairdresser over my career in some way.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • People
  • Career
  • Honor

• Serving our district and military families is a tremendous honor, and as our work continues in Congress, I will continue fighting for a strong national defense.

  

  Elise Stefanik
  • Work
  • Strong
  • Fighting

• To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Real
  • Respect
  • Means

• It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Justice
  • Moral
  • Loss

• They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• To go from hating the way I looked to being a 'Cosmo' centerfold is a profound honor.

  

  Adam Richman
  • Honor
  • Profound

• Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.

  

  Curtis Joseph
  • Time
  • Great
  • Honor

• You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.

  

  Tyne Daly
  • People
  • Important
  • Women

• Honor is better than honors.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Better
  • Honor
  • Honors

• We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Powerful
  • Fighting
  • Honor

• What honor can there be without humility? What heights can be reached without being low? The pieces of a chariot are useless unless the work in accordance with the whole A man's life brings nothing unless he lives in accordance with the whole universe Playing one's part in accordance with the universe is true humility So whether you're a gem in the royal court or a stone on the common path If you accept your part with humility the glory of the universe will be yours.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Universe
  • Humility
  • Glory

• It's an honor to have been part of something so core to so many lives. The show has evolved beyond it's original intent and form and has transcended... itself!

  

  Christopher Knight
  • Honor

• There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

  

  Plato
  • Men
  • Wisdom
  • Honor

• If, by any chance, I get to perform, then it would be a great honor for me. Especially because performing in the Olympics in your country doesn't happen to many skaters.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • Great
  • Country
  • Honor

• Men of Athens, I honor and love you; but I shall obey God rather than you, and while I have life and strength I shall never cease from the practice and teaching of philosophy.

  

  Socrates
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • World
  • City
  • Amazing

• Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Honor

• Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Selfishness
  • Craving
  • Covetousness

• Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Desert
  • Deserve

• If you're a parent, love your children. If you're married, honor your spouse instead of looking on the Internet for love in all the wrong places. I'm talking about real relationships, not false intimacies.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Children
  • Real
  • Honor

• With a living person you're always burdened with this idea of fair representation, treading this fine line between honoring the person, and yet you really look at the word "honor," it implies that you then have to address struggle and hardship and failure, and all these things that it means to be human, that you show the fullness of their life. If the person's living, they are able to interject.

  

  Brian Lindstrom
  • Person
  • Idea
  • Fair representation

• When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

  

  George B. McClellan
  • War
  • Proud
  • Sad

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