Honor Quotes

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
F. E. Smith

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Herbert Hoover

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
Herbert Hoover

To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
Tom Robbins

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
Dame Agatha Christie

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

The word must is not to be used to princes.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide.

If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
Cleopatra

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
Pericles

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
Stevie Wonder

I hate it when people call me a teen queen.
Lindsay Lohan

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

Honor your commitments with integrity.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one.
Bill Murray

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: 'It connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams

National honor is the national property of the highest value.
James Monroe

When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
Seamus Heaney

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine medieval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
Harry Houdini

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
Julius Caesar

I am honored and quite proud that a class is being taught on my sensationalist lyrics, unique style and fashion and leadership role within the hip-hop community.
Lil\' Kim

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
Fulton J. Sheen

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.
Brad Paisley

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.
Bill Gates

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

Alison Krauss is definitely my favorite singer that's ever lived. I've never heard anyone like her.
Brad Paisley

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth
Benito Mussolini

It's a conclusion of a marvelous career of an honorable man. Everything good about college basketball is in Dick Bennett.
John Jay

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.
David Hockney

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say "figment."