Quotes on the topic: Honor


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All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.


I try to be respectful about getting an honor or recognition, but I don't really know what the Rock Hall actually is. In my experience with the people who run it, I don't see it having to do with anything other than them making money.


Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.


Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.


I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.


For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.


You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.


Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.


There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.


I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.


Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.


It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.


I continue to care for President Obama and for his family. I think that in many ways they are very courageous people, and I honor that, because I know what it means to live as a black person in a racist America.


I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.


It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.


Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.


Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.


The honor of a nation is its life.


To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.


It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.