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Honor Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “Let every lion do his duty.”

J.P. Morgan

2. “I feel bound in honour when I reorganise a property and am morally responsible for its management, to protect it – and I generally do protect it.”

J.P. Morgan

3. “All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.”

Andrew Carnegie

4. “Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.”

Charles Lamb

5. “Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o’er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!”

Charles Lamb

6. “Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour’d his relics are laid.”

Charles Lamb

7. “Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne’er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.”

Charles Lamb

8. “My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they survived the war, thank goodness. So I revere what they did. I think their motivations were honorable when they undertook the war and participated in it along with other Southerners.”

Jimmy Carter

9. “The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.”

V.S. Naipaul

10. “Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.”

Pythagoras

11. “But respect yourself most of all.”

Pythagoras

12. “God is the brave man’s hope, and not the coward’s excuse.”

Plutarch

13. “Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.”

Plutarch

14. “Come back with your shield – or on it.”

Plutarch

15. “It was glorious to acquire a throne by justice, yet more glorious to prefer justice before a throne; the same virtue which made the one appear worthy of regal power exalted the other to the disregard of it.”

Plutarch

16. “When someone asked Demaratus why the Spartans disgrace those who throw away their shields but not those who abandon their breastplates or helmets, he said that they put the latter on for their own sakes but the shield for the sake of the whole line.”

Plutarch

17. “A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, “As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it.””

Plutarch

18. “Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.”

Plutarch

19. “I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.”

Plutarch

20. “Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.”

Plutarch

21. “It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.”

Plutarch

22. “Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.”

Plutarch

23. “To make an action honorable, it ought to be agreeable to the age, and other circumstances of the person; since it is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.”

Plutarch

24. “I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.”

Plutarch

25. “I didn’t leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

26. “Neither I nor anyone else knows what a standard is. We all recognize a dishonorable act, but have no idea what honor is.”

Anton Chekhov

27. “No one should ever be disrespected.”

Chanakya

28. “The disgrace of one’s people brings sorrow to the noble-minded.”

Chanakya

29. “The demerits of our own people bring infamy. Their disgrace is our own disgrace. That is why infamy of such people really hurts. It is desirable that the ruler or the administrator may work in a way that such disgraceful conduct may not occur.”

Chanakya

30. “It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.”

Chanakya

31. “When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.”

Herbert Hoover

32. “Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.”

Herbert Hoover

33. “No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.”

Herbert Hoover

34. “Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.”

Seneca

35. “There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.”

Seneca

36. “Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.”

Seneca

37. “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

Seneca

38. “When she created us, nature endowed us with noble aspirations, and just as she gave certain animals ferocity, others timidity, others cunning, so to us she gave a spirit of exalted ambition, a spirit that takes us in search of a life of, not the greatest safety, but the greatest honour – a spirit very like the universe, which, so far as mortal footsteps may, it follows and adopts as a model.”

Seneca

39. “It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.”

Sophocles

40. “I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.”

Sophocles

41. “Let a man nobly live or nobly die.”

Sophocles

42. “I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely.”

Sophocles

43. “It is the brave man’s part to live with glory, or with glory die.”

Sophocles

44. “Even a poor man can receive honors.”

Sophocles

45. “No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he’s down. Where’s the glory, killing the dead twice over?”

Sophocles

46. “What greater ornament to a son than a father’s glory, or to a father than a son’s honorable conduct?”

Sophocles

47. “Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.”

Sophocles

48. “Never at my hands will the traitor be honored above the patriot. But whoever proves his loyalty to the state–I’ll prize that man in death as well as life.”

Sophocles

49. “Better not to exist than live basely.”

Sophocles

50. “It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.”

Sophocles

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