Honor

(347 votes)   Why should honor outlive honestly? [Orthello]

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(275 votes)   Better not be at all than not be noble.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(217 votes)   Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(172 votes)   A hundred years cannot repair a moment's loss of honor.

Proverbs

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(172 votes)   A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(160 votes)   The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(155 votes)   Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(141 votes)   The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(137 votes)   A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep?

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(135 votes)   Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(133 votes)   The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.

Bernard Mandeville
1670-1733, Dutch-born British Author, Physician

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(128 votes)   Honor is the reward of virtue.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(109 votes)   There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

Woodrow T. Wilson
1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

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(107 votes)   No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer

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(106 votes)   Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil.

John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

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