Honor Quotes
(1 - 10 of 45)Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a more
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even more
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to
have done, and let the more
Do not consider what you may do, but what it will become you to
have done, and let the sense of honor subdue your mind.
[Lat., Nec tibi quid liceat, sed quid fecisse decebit
Occurrat, mentemque domet respectus honesti.]
Honor lies in honest toil.
Honor lies in honest toil.
Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
[Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.]
Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.
[Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.]
And all at Worcester but the honour lost.
And all at Worcester but the honour lost.
Titles of honour add not to his worth,
Who is himself an honour of his titles.
Titles of honour add not to his worth,
Who is himself an honour of his titles.
Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune,
there is nothing left to me more
Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune,
there is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is
saved.
[Lat., Madame, pour vous faire savoir comme se porte le reste de
mon infortune, de toutes choses m'est demeure que l'honneur et la
vie qui est sauve.]
