1,157 Quotes About Honor

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Pardon me, madam, if I have little respect for honor. I think it’s only a euphemism for double standard and hypocrisy. - Clay Sutherland

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn’t respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor.

If you disrespect a man, that man may forgive you, but he will never forget how you disrespected him. However, if you slight that man, he's going to hate you for the rest of his life.

Courtesy is not learned by instinct. Like the other components of respect, courtesy has to be taught and modeled.

Nobility is shown not by the respect one is given by the highest, but the respect one gives to the lowly.

When we’re all living in the space of the inner child, loving, honoring, respecting, and embracing its desires, we are at peace.

And life can have its way with me. It won't break me. Neither you nor me. That determined faith in our own resilience is our only weapon against the cynical, the weak, those who talk of honor but do not practice the word they so loudly and vigorously screech.

The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, no man in his generation preached republican virtue in better English, nor lived it with a finer disregard of self.{On American founding father and hero, Thomas Paine}