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Abraham Lincoln
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Akhenaton
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.
Alexander Pope An Essay on Man
Honor and shame from no condition riseAct well your part: there all the honor lies.
Aristotle
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.
Baltasar Graci?n y Morales The Worldly Art of Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
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.
Calvin Coolidge
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Eudora Welty Must the Novelist Crusade? The Eye of the Story
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.
George Bush
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
John W. Gardner The aims of a Free People Excellence
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.
Julia Ward Howe Peace proclamation, London, 1870
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
Lao Tzu
Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.
Leonardo da Vinci Note-books
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Margaret Fuller Summer on the Lakes
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.
Mario Andretti in A Moment With A Legend by Zino
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.
Mark Twain
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Marya Mannes More in Anger
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
Pliny the Younger Letters
Honor puts us under an obligation as binding as necessity is for other people.
Robert E. Lee
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
Sophocles
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Talmud
Let the honor of thy fellow be as dear to thee as thine own.
 
 
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