Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. C. Sproul

To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.

Publilius Syrus

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

R. A. Torrey

Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.

Noah Webster

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

Jodi Picoult

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

Jodi Picoult

Justification is a remarkable thing-takes all those solid lines and blurs them, so that honor becomes as supple as a willow, and ethics burst like soap bubbles.

Oprah Winfrey

If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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 Tullius Cicero

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Kevin McKidd

It’s been such an honor to be your Owen Hunt

Margaret Chase Smith

Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.

Martha Graham

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

Michel de Montaigne

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Michel de Montaigne

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Harry Houdini

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

George Santayana

It is pathetic to observe how lowly the motives are that religion, even the highest, attributes to the deity... To be given the best morsel, to be remembered, to be praised, to be obeyed blindly and punctiliously - these have been thought points of honor with the gods.

Marcel Proust

Let a prize lower my position, if it causes me to be read; that I prefer immediately to all the honors.

Joseph Addison

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

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

Epictetus

Act your part with honor.

Emily Giffin

[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.

Hjalmar Schacht

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

Herodotus

Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

Johanna Lindsey

Defeat held no honor.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Khaled Hosseini

you say you have no courage, but i see it in you. what you did, the burden you agreed to shoulder, took courage. for that, i honor you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

Norman Spinrad

The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.

Origen

What each one honors before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.

Melody Beattie

There is honor in all work, in all tasks, but take it one step further. Make what you do a labor of love. Then your work will truly touch and change the world in the way you desire. The work you do, whatever your chosen field, will be work that heals.