"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor."
- George Bernard Shaw
No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Calvin Coolidge
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Act well your part, there all the honor lies.”
- Edgar Lee Masters
"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope"
- Winston Churchill
“To respect someone means to treat their ideas, personal space, belongings, and needs as equal in importance to your own, while to honor someone means to treat all those things as more important than your own.”
- Sarah Arthur
“My knight may not wear a coat of shining armor,
but his code of glowing honor
will never fail to protect us both
from evils far worse than any fire-breathing dragon.”
- Richelle E. Goodrich
“It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness.
You've got to stand apart from it, too.
You've got to be different from it.”
-Jim Butcher
"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are."
-Thomas Carlyle
“Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor must have feet and hands.”
- Douglas Wilson
"Ability without honor is useless."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Good men don't become legends," he said quietly.
"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.”
"Good men don't need to become legends." She opened her eyes, looking up at him. "They just do what's right anyway.”
- Brandon Sanderson
When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
-Herbert Hoover
"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause."
- Abraham Lincoln
"...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor."
- Rachel Vincent
“Feelings or Emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are in your deepest place.”
-Judith Wright
"You don't play a game or color a picture with a child to show your superiority. Rather, you choose to limit yourself so as to facilitate and honor that relationship."
- W. Paul Young
"You saw we could lose our lives for this child.
I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family."
“It is a good man who stands up for his friends,
but an honorable man who stands up for his enemies.”
- Violet Haberdasher, The Secret Prince
"It is better to deserve honors and not have them
than to have them and not deserve them."
-Mark Twain
“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. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
- Winston Churchill
"Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute,
if there is any excellence and anything worthy of praise,
let your mind dwell on these things."
- Phillipians 4:8
