Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Honor

Honor

Ability without honor is useless.--Marcus Tullius Cicero
The biggest need in politics and government today is for people of integrity and courage, who will do what they believe is right and not worry about the political consequences to themselves.--Reva Beck Bosone
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.--Julia Ward Howe (Peace proclamation, London, 1870)
Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.--Mario Andretti (in "A Moment With A Legend" by Zino)
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.--Tacitus (Annals)
Generally women are better than men -- they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with their lives.--Lauren Bacall
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.--Lao Tzu
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.--Walter Lippmann (A Preface to Morals)
Honor and shame from no condition rise
Act well your part: there all the honor lies.--Alexander Pope (An Essay on Man)
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.--Akhenaton
Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.--Pliny the Younger (Letters)
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.--Barbara Tuchman
Integrity can neither be lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived nor, I believe, in the long run denied.--Eudora Welty ("Must the Novelist Crusade?" The Eye of the Story)
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.--Mark Twain
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.--George Bush
Let the honor of thy fellow be as dear to thee as thine own.--Talmud
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.--John W. Gardner ("The aims of a Free People" Excellence)
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.--Calvin Coolidge
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.--Sophocles
Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.--Aristotle
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.--Abraham Lincoln
Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.--Baltasar Gracián y Morales (The Worldly Art of Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle)
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.--Robert E. Lee
Who sows virtue reaps honor.--Leonardo da Vinci (Note-books)
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.--Margaret Fuller (Summer on the Lakes)
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.--Marya Mannes (More in Anger)