Sayings about Honor
The young should be taught, the old should be honored. ~ Swedish Proverb
Every man is the guardian of his own honor. ~ Indian Proverb
He who wants to sell his honor will always find a buyer. ~ Arabian Proverb
Probity is true honor. ~ Latin Proverb
Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows. ~ Traditional Proverb
An old man with a torn sleeve never dishonored anyone. ~ Brazilian Proverb
There is honor among thieves. ~ Traditional Proverb
Poverty is no shame — but is no great honor either. ~ Jewish Proverb
If you don’t honor your wife, you are dishonoring yourself. ~ Mexican Proverb
God sells knowledge for labor, honor for risk. ~ Dutch Proverb
No revenge is more honorable than the one not taken. ~ Spanish Proverb
The key that unlocks is also the key that locks. Honor a child, and he will honor you. ~ African Proverb
He who lives without discipline dies without honor. ~ Icelandic Proverb
Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~ Irish Proverb
A hundred years cannot repair a moment’s loss of honor. ~ Traditional Proverb
If the master gets drunk it is an honorable drunkenness; if the servant does it is evidence of his mean disposition. ~ Tibetan Proverb
Honor goes to God; the priests get the bacon. ~ Russian Proverb
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. ~ Welsh Proverb
Chins without beards deserve no honor. ~ Spanish Proverb
Honor and money cannot go in the same sack. ~ Spanish Proverb
There is no honor when there is nothing to eat. ~ Russian Proverb
From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor. ~ Traditional Proverb
It is better to save your innocence at the expense of your honor than your country at the expense of your life. ~ Chinese Proverb
Where there is no shame, there is no honor. ~ African Proverb
Not everyone who sits in the seat of honor is master. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Better retreat in honor than advance in disgrace. ~ Serbian Proverb
The place honors not the man; it is the man who honors the place. ~ Hebrew Proverb
After honor and state follow envy and hate. ~ Dutch Proverb
Honorable is the person who is aware of his power, yet refrains from inflicting bad things onto others. ~ Egyptian Proverbs
Who fears no shame comes to no honor. ~ Dutch Proverb
Beware of men who flourish hereditary honors. ~ Traditional Proverb
Honor is better than honors. ~ Belgian Proverbs
Excellent people are honored wherever they go. ~ Tibetan Proverb
Nobility of soul is more honorable than nobility of birth. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash. ~ Traditional Proverb
A man without honor smells worse than a corpse. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Before honor is humility. ~ Bible
Who loses honor can lose nothing else. ~ Latin Proverbs
What good is honor when you’re starving? ~ Yiddish Proverb
God sells knowledge for labor — honor for risk. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb
Better poor with honor than rich with shame. ~ Dutch Proverbs
It is little honor to the lion to seize the mouse. ~ German Proverbs
Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal. ~ Greek Proverbs
Quotations about Honor
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ~ Aristotle
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? ~ Joseph Addison
One cannot seek to uphold honor in a being that has none. ~ Charles De Lint
Honor is self-esteem made visible in action. ~ Ayn Rand
The law of honor is a system of rules constructed by people of fashion, and calculated to facilitate their intercourse with one another. ~ William Paley
A good intention does not mean honor. ~ Francois Rabelais
Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine, of honor. ~ A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. ~ Nicholas Boileau
Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong. ~ Ouida
For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death. ~ Bhagavad Gita
Honor isn’t about making the right choices. It’s about dealing with the consequences. ~ Midori Koto
I think that we honor ourselves by honoring our past. ~ Tom Brokaw
Honor appears to me to be an object of great importance, since men submit to every kind of labor, and undergo every sort of danger, with the desire of attaining it. ~ Xenophon
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created. ~ Solon
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Honor is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
What he feels and not what he does honors a man. ~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
In whom the love of honor and praise is innate, are those who are elevated most above the brutes, and who are justly named men, and not merely human beings. ~ Xenophon
Honor’s a lease for life to come. ~ Samuel Butler
No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not. ~ Publilius Syrus
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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
What is left when honour is lost? ~ Publilius Syrus
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. ~ Sophocles
What can be more honorable than to have courage enough to execute the commands of reason and conscience,–to maintain the dignity of our nature, and the station assigned us? ~ Jeremy Collier
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. ~ Ernest Hemingway
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country. ~ George Washington
The law often permits what honor prohibits. ~ Bermard Josef Saurin
To contemn all the wealth and power in the world, where they stand in competition with a man’s honor, is rather good sense than greatness of mind. ~ Sir Richard Steele
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least injury without damage; it is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by the least flaw. ~ Jacques Benigue Bossuet
Honour is like a match, you can only use it once. ~ Marcel Pagnol, Marius
Next to living with honor is to die with honor. ~ Christian Nestell Bovee
One honor won is a surety for more. ~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. ~ Publilius Syrus
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you. ~ Mary Kay Ash
Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living. ~ Claude A. Helvétius
Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong. ~ Thomas Jefferson
National honor is the national property of the highest value. ~ James Monroe
In believing in others, we are believed. In supporting others, we gain followers, and in recognizing the value of others, we are honored. ~ Solon B. Cousins
Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor lies. ~ Alexander Pope
In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning. ~ Confucius
That nation is worthless which does not joyfully stake everything on her honor. ~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Honor lies in honest toil. ~ Grover Cleveland
The nation’s honor is dearer than the nation’s comfort; yes, than the nation’s life itself. ~ Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Ability without honor is useless. ~ Marcus T Cicero
We would rather starve than sell our national honor. ~ Indira Gandhi
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
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation, as necessity is to others. ~ Pliny the Elder
Once you pledge, don’t hedge. ~ Nikita S. Khrushchev
When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; but reach not to seize it before it is near. ~ John Boyle O’Reilly
Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times. ~ Ben Jonson
Act well your part; there all honor lies. ~ Alexander Pope
If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare. ~ William Arnot
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. ~ Joseph Addison
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
One has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. ~ Walter Lippmann
Dishonor is like a gash on a tree trunk — instead of disappearing with age, it enlarges. ~ Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
The strongest passion which I have is honor. ~ Philip James Bailey
To those whose god is honor, disgrace alone is sin. ~ A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
Let my honor be without stain. ~ Motto
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them. ~ Lord Horatio Nelson
The country’s honor must be upheld at home and abroad. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Honor is but the reflection of a man’s own actions shining bright in the face of all about him, and from thence rebounding upon himself. ~ Bishop Robert South
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. ~ Joseph Addison
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. ~ Akhenaton
What is honorable is also safest. ~ Titus Livy
I have deserved neither so much honor nor so much disgrace. ~ Pierre Corneille
Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. ~ William Shakespeare
Honor is simply the morality of superior men. ~ H.L.Mencken
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Honor is the reward of virtue. ~ Marcus T. Cicero
All men of honor are alone. ~ F. Paul Wilson
Let us do what honor demands. ~ Francois Rabelais
Honor is the moral conscience of the great. ~ Sir William D’Avenant
No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin. ~ H. L. Mencken
The journey of high honor lies not in smooth ways. ~ Sir Philip Sidney
The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death. ~ Beowulf VII
All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted. ~ Andrew Carnegie
Honor is but an itch in youthful blood of doing acts extravagantly good. ~ Samuel Howard
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. ~ Calvin Coolidge
Without money honor is merely a disease. ~ Jean Racine
I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating. ~ Sophocles
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. ~ Julius Caesar
Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. ~ Norman Mailer
A man of honor should never forget what he is because he sees what others are. ~ Baltasar Gracian
Honor, thou strong idol of man’s mind. ~ Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
Men honor men who honor their fellow men. ~ Ken Alstad
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor. ~ William Lyon Phelps
Honor — it was transitory and subjective, and often directly opposed to practicality. ~ Amanda Downum
The more honor, the more danger. ~ Aesop
A person dishonored is worst than dead. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
Honor lies in honest toil. ~ Steven Grover Cleveland
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. ~ Citium Zeno
Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor. ~ Tad Williams
The post of honor is a private station. ~ Joseph Addison
For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
