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“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
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“Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.”
Sophocles Quotes |
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“He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.”
Walter Lippmann Quotes |
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“Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.”
William Shakespeare Quotes |
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“Fail to honor people,they fail to honor you; but of a good leader, who talks little, when his work is done, his aims fulfilled, they will all say, 'We did this ourselves.'”
Lao Tzu Quotes |
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“The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“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 Quotes |
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“Dead on the field of honour.”
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“Dead on the field of honour.”
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“The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it
is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in
such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined
education.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: in the "Guardian", no. 161
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“Better to die ten thousand deaths,
Than wound my honour.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act I, sc. 4)
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“Content thyself to be obscurely good.
When vice prevails and impious men bear away,
The post of honor is a private station.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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“The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness,
and peril of falling?”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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“When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there
is no witness.
[Lat., Turpe quid ausurus, te sine teste time.]”
Decimus Magnus Ausonius Quotes Source: Septem Sapientum Sententioe Septenis Versibus Explicatoe (III, 7)
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“The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death.”
Decimus Magnus Ausonius Quotes Source: Septem Sapientum Sententioe Septenis Versibus Explicatoe (III, 7)
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“These were honoured in their generations, and were the glory of
the times.”
Bible Quotes Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XLIV, v. 7)
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“Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; we can never
re-enter it once we are on the outside.
[Fr., L'honneur est comme une ile escarpee et sans bords;
On n'y peut plus rentrer des qu'on en est dehors.]”
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Quotes Source: Satires (X, 167)
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“If he that in the field is slain
Be in the bed of honour lain,
He that is beaten may be said
To lie in Honour's truckle-bed.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 1,047)
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“Now, while the honour thou hast got
Is spick and span new.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 397)
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“Honor is like a widow, won
With brisk attempt and putting on.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto I)
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“As quick as lightning, in the breach
Just in the place where honour's lodged,
As wise philosophers have judged,
Because a kick in that place more
Hurts honour than deep wounds before.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 1,066)
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“In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not
what you said or thought.
[Lat., Semper in fide quid senseris, non quid dixeris,
cogitandum.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: De Officiis (I, 13)
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“There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries
to corrupt you.
[Lat., Nulla est laus ibi esse integrum, ubi nemo est, qui aut
possit aut conetur rumpere.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: In Verrem (II, 1, 16)
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