Honor Quotes
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My first gold medal, at my first Olympics, is kind of a surprise to me. I never thought I would be in this position, but I'm so blessed and honored to be on the medal stand.
Simone Manuel
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I'm humbled by the honor that President Clinton has done me in nominatinq me as Attorney General of the United States, and I'm going to do my very best to deserve his confidence.
Janet Reno
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The honor is overpaid, When he that did the act is commentator.
James Shirley
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Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.
N.D. Wilson
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Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.
Vanna Bonta
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It was an honor to serve at Boeing on the 777.
Alan Mulally
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If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.
Max Stirner
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We must honor, protect and support our police officers and their families every day of the year.
Janet Reno
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In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.
John Sergeant Wise
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That’s why courage is tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you’re doing something. I mean, any fool can have courage. But honor, that’s the real reason you either do something or you don’t. It’s who you are and maybe who you want to be.
Michael Oher
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You should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too.
Michael Oher
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Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.
Anton Chekhov
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I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'
Jesse Ventura
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Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.
Joe Moore
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran
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'I have marched in many a battle host,' Adaon answered quietly, 'but I have also planted seeds and reaped the harvest with my own hands. And I have learned there is greater honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.'
Lloyd Alexander
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I'm no parasite. I'm a poet who will bring honor and glory to his country.
Joseph Brodsky
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With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.
Abraham Lincoln
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Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery.
William Shakespeare
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You can't win integrity and honor from games. You can only earn them from living a life dedicated to those ideals.
P. C. Cast
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There's no honor in soccer.
Alexi Lalas
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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur
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Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.
Payne Stewart
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe