Honor Quotes

My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

I'm a competitive person.

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.

Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Edge will be missed. It was an honor to share the ring with him, and compete against him.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

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

Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.

The Grammy is the highest honor in music that we can receive, outside of having fans come and watch you every night and clap.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

I think it is a huge honor to get to go play for the troops who have been working their tails off for several years, some with several tours under their belt.

It's important to show solidarity for a child, no matter what. It's important for a child to be raised in a situation where she sees love, solidarity, commitment and honor.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.

Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

But Bill Clinton had the good taste to lie about his sexual peccadillos. He had the honor and the decency to want to cover it up.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.

I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.

This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.

At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.

What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun?

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

To be the highest-paid running back ever is quite an honor.

You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.

When I won the Tony, I blacked out. I don't remember anything. I had bullet points jotted down, but I forgot to read half of them. My hands were shaking. It was an insane honor to be recognized in that way.

People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

I don't take a second for granted of the honor of representing country music.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.

I have always found it an honor that people have wanted to buy my shirt and an honor that fans turn up to watch the team I am playing in. I have always found that a huge honor.