These honor quotes will inspire you. Honor high respect; great esteem or the quality of knowing and doing what is morally right or regard with great respect.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging honor quotes, honor sayings, and honor proverbs.
Best Honor Quotes
- “It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.” ~ Sophocles
- “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
- “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
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“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” ~ Aristotle
- “It is better to be alone than in bad company.” ~ Unknown
- “He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.” ~ Walter Lippmann
- “Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
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“The time is always right to do what is right.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “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.” ~ Socrates
- “It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “Be noble-minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.” ~ Friedrich Schiller
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“Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.” ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
- “Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you’ll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
- “Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one’s talents and gifts to the benefits of others – these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.” ~ Henry Ford , Self honor quotes
- “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” ~ Aeschylus
- “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “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
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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.” ~ Thomas B. Macaulay
- “Confidence… thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection, and on unselfish performance. Without them, it cannot live.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.” ~ William J. H. Boetcker , Respect and honor quotes
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“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” ~ Joseph Campbell
- “Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.” ~ Aristotle
- “The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend” ~ Paulo Coelho
- “If it is a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.” ~ Andrew Carnegie
- “We must never mistake the process for the result…there is suffering, but this is only the process. God isn’t going to stop with the process; He wants to produce the final result. Suffering leads to glory; shame leads to honor; weakness leads to power. This is God’s way of doing things.” ~ Warren W. Wiersbe
- “An honor is not diminished for being shared.” ~ Lois McMaster Bujold
- “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ~ Winston Churchill
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“Since the dawn of history, mankind has honored and respected brave and honest people.” ~ Nelson Mandela
- “There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen – they are immaterial but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
- “For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money.” ~ Arne Garborg
- “The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.” ~ Socrates
- “Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.” ~ Winston Churchill
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“Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.” ~ Mignon McLaughlin
- “What is left when honor is lost?” ~ Publilius Syrus
- “I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” ~ Julius Caesar
- “If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth.” ~ Loren Cunningham
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“Who sows virtue reaps honor.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci
- “If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “Honor does not have to be defended.” ~ Robert J. Sawyer
- “No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
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“He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.” ~ Publilius Syrus
- “All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.” ~ John Adams
- “Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
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“For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.” ~ Aristotle , Love and honor quotes
- “When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.” ~ John Boyle O’Reilly
- “The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways.” ~ Philip Sidney
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“Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other’s opposite and complement.” ~ Hermann Hesse
- “Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.” ~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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“Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.” ~ Tacitus
- “Honour is purchased by the deeds we do.” ~ Christopher Marlowe
- “The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?” ~ Saint Augustine
Honor to show great respect for someone or treat (someone) with respect and admiration.
