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Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not
what you said or thought.
[Lat., Semper in read more
In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not
what you said or thought.
[Lat., Semper in fide quid senseris, non quid dixeris,
cogitandum.]
Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is read more
Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.'
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries
to corrupt you.
[Lat., Nulla read more
There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries
to corrupt you.
[Lat., Nulla est laus ibi esse integrum, ubi nemo est, qui aut
possit aut conetur rumpere.]
Honour is but an itch in youthful blood
Of doing acts extravagantly good.
Honour is but an itch in youthful blood
Of doing acts extravagantly good.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would read more
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.