Honor Quotes

• Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Hurt
  • Honor
  • Disguises

• Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

  

  Aron Ralston
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Peace

• The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Men
  • Character
  • Honesty

• We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Love
  • Honor

• If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word of honor is God in man."

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Character
  • Trust

• I feel a deep emotion and pride for the honor of having been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1992.

  

  Rigoberta Menchu
  • Having
  • Nobel
  • Awarded

• Harry Dresden: Sometimes I hate having a conscience, and a stupidly thorough sense of honor.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Hate
  • Honor

• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • Honor
  • Christmas

• Everything can be for sale, but the honor.

  

  Kakha Bendukidze
  • Honor
  • Sale

• Every human action gains in honor, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come. It is the far sight, the quiet and confident patience, that, above all other attributes, separate man from man, and near him to his Maker; and there is no action nor art, whose majesty we may not measure by this test.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Patience
  • Measure
  • Regard

• I love traveling around and talking to women in groups like the Girl Scouts, and being able to work with them is such an honor. For me, it's always about working really hard and being able to help other people, which is what I've done with both of my books.

  

  Katherine Schwarzenegger
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• It was an honor to serve at Boeing on the 777.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Honor

• Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.

  

  Francis Asbury
  • World
  • Money
  • Heart

• Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Honor
  • Mexican

• When they were working on the movie 'Lone Survivor,' all I cared about was that it was done right to honor all of the guys.

  

  Marcus Luttrell
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Honor

• Age indomitably, in the European manner. Do not finish your labours young. Be a planet, not a meteor. Honor the working day. Sit at your desk.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Life
  • Age
  • Labour

• The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Great
  • Democracy
  • Honor

• You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Space
  • Recovering
  • Calming

• It took me a long time to learn how to be brave enough to put myself out there and try everything, no matter how strange or silly. If I can impart that same wisdom to other folks - no matter what age - it would be an honor.

  

  Alethea Kontis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Age

• I honor the place within you where, when you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Honor
  • Place

• To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

  

  David Hare
  • God
  • Honor

• We remain committed to the conference and fully anticipate that the Big 12 will honor its commitment to Texas A&M.

  

  R. Bowen Loftin
  • Honor
  • Commitment
  • Texas

• It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Honor
  • Integrity
  • Historically True

• There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • True
  • Honor

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