Honor Quotes

"This world is always working against a sense of honor, cleanliness, integrity."

"I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people."

"To be part of the All-Star group is a great honor. It means a lot."

"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."

Seneca

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

George MacDonald

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

Douglas MacArthur

"Uncommon valor was a common virtue."

Chester W. Nimitz

"Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause."

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."

"Here dead we lie because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung."

A. E. Housman

"The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract."

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of."

"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls."

"Honor is simply the morality of superior men."

H. L. Mencken

"Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done."

"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

Mark Twain

"It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country."

Horace

"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers."

"The safety, honour and welfare of your country come first, always and every time."

Philip Chetwode

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."

"Duty, honor, country: those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be."

Douglas MacArthur

"Heroes have the whole earth for their tomb."

Pericles

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly."

Theodore Roosevelt

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

Calvin Coolidge