1,157 Quotes About Honor

Leaders are not worried about the respect and honour they can be given, but the impacts and influence they can give!

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

Losing your honor in a person's eye is tantamount losing it for entire humanity.

To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect.

A true anecdote which illustrates his unworldly nature is of the instruction he received in 1922 to appear at Buckingham Palace to receive the accolade of the Order of Knighthood; Bayliss replied that as the date coincided with that of a meeting of the Physiological Society, he would be unable to attend.

In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual eminently calculated to do himself credit as a scientific traveler.

It's important to understand that while honor is an entitlement to respect--and shame comes when you lose that title--a person of honor cares first of all not about being respected but about being worthy of respect.

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.

Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.