quotations about honor
The more honor, the more danger.
AESOP
"The Mice and the Weasels", Aesop's Fables
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Guardian, No. 161
It is an assured sign of a worthy and generous spirit, whom honor amends. For honor is, or should be, the place of virtue; and as in nature, things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding star; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self, whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed. Use the memory of thy predecessor, fairly and tenderly; for if thou dost not, it is a debt will sure be paid when thou art gone. If thou have colleagues, respect them, and rather call them, when they look not for it, than exclude them, when they have reason to look to be called. Be not too sensible, or too remembering, of thy place in conversation, and private answers to suitors; but let it rather be said, When he sits in place, he is another man.
FRANCIS BACON
"Of Great Place", The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral
Men honor men who honor their fellow men.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
The nearest way to Honour is for a man so to live that he may be found to be that in truth he would be thought to be.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
The grand principles of virtue and honor, however they may be distorted by arbitrary codes, are the same all the world over: and where these principles are concerned, the right or wrong of any action appears the same to the uncultivated as to the enlightened mind.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Typee
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V
Next to living with honor is to die with honor.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Game of Thrones
All men of honor are alone.
F. PAUL WILSON
The Tomb
Virtue is in our power, though praise be not: we may deserve honour, though we cannot command it.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose?
ANNE BISHOP
Heir to the Shadows
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.
JACQUES-BENIGNE BOSSUET
attributed, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
For he's honourable
And doubling that, most holy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Cymbeline
Honor is a divine good.
PLATO
attributed, Day's Collacon
The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.
R. J. PALACIO
Wonder
Great honors are great burdens; and distinguished conditions in life exact great servitude.
SENECA
attributed, Day's Collacon
Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard II
Let none presume
To wear an undeserv'd dignity.
O, that estates, degrees and offices
Were not deriv'd corruptly, and that clear honour
Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice