The 90 best quotes about honor

Quotes and reflections about honor, a fundamental value in many cultures.

For many cultures, honor is everything; not only is it seen as one of the most important values of the human being, but it is a way of life that everyone should have as a reference to know what to do at all times.

Honor would be what gives value to our words, promises and actions, so when we fail in any of these, we are exposed as people with serious moral failures.

In this article you will find a selection of the best phrases about honorcommented.

The 90 most inspiring phrases of honor

This is a collection of quotes and reflections on honor that are inspiring and help to understand this value.

Everyone loves life, but the brave and honorable man cherishes honor most. (William Shakespeare)

For many people throughout history, honor has been the cornerstone of existence.

2. The samurai who failed his lord suffered a dishonor worse than death. (Virginia Schomp)

The samurai were known to attach great importance to their honor.

3. Service to others in their time of need is a privilege and an honor. (Harley King)

Helping those in need is more than a show of empathy; it can be understood as a duty.

4. Honor consists in making beautiful that which one is obliged to do. (Alfred Victor de Vigny)

Enjoy what you do.

5. You know when you should leave and when you should not accept less than you deserve. If so, you are an honorable man!

It will hurt, but it is better to leave where you are not appreciated.

6. Honor is the presence of God in man. (Pat Conroy)

Honor as a divine value.

7. I renounce the honors, but not the struggle. (Eva Perón)

Sometimes we must give up something important in order to go on.

8. There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not competing because you are afraid of losing. (Garth Stein)

The real loss is when we don't try.

9. Honor is like armor...it keeps you safe. (George R.R.Martin)

Acting well helps you have better relationships.

10. When there is an excess of love, man loses his honor and his worth. (Euripides)

Love can be a dirty play.

11. If you can enrich yourself by preserving honor, good faith, magnanimity, do not excuse it. (Epictetus of Phrygia)

Success is no reason to lose honor.

12. A man can lose his honor and regain it again. (Cormac McCarthy)

Honor is earned by our good deeds.

14. Now I know that no one can give you your honor, it is something you earn for yourself by choosing the right thing to do.

You place your value yourself.

15. Success without honor is the greatest failure. (Vicente del Bosque)

There are those who, being at the top, lose their humility.

16. The love to none of honor and to all gives pain.

It is common to lose honor in matters of love.

17. A true gentleman apologizes anyway, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. (Shannon Alder)

An apology saves a misunderstanding.

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

A title is a token of our effort.

19. A maiden's honor is in a bad tongue.

Defamation can ruin anyone's reputation.

20. It is not titles that honor men, but men who honor titles. (Niccolò Machiavelli)

It is useless to have a title if later one will act badly.

21. The people should not be satisfied with their leaders doing well, they should aspire that they can never do wrong. (Mariano Moreno)

An important reflection on what we expect from politicians.

22. A running horse and a quarrelsome man, their honor does not last long. (Spanish proverb)

A popular saying about the permanence of honor.

23. You must know that it is not my interest that guides my honor, but my honor that guides my interest. (William Shakespeare)

Let good manners be your guide.

24. All of us are always inclined to seek what is forbidden and to covet what is denied us. (François Rabelais)

Temptation is always present.

25. My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail. (Elon Musk)

A radical decision about achieving your goals.

26. Honor consists in doing beautifully that which one is obliged to do. (Alfred Victor de Vigny)

when we love what we do, we do it well.

27. Be honorable if you want to associate with honorable people. (James Welch)

Be careful with the people around you.

28. Honor is a steep island without a shore: he who has fallen from it, cannot get back up. (Nicolas Boileau)

An interesting reflection on the loss of honor.

29. The man of honor has no other country than that in which the rights of citizens are protected and the sacredness of humanity is respected. (Simón Bolívar)

Respect is a fundamental part of honor.

30. I will honor Christmas in my Heart and try to keep it all the year round. (Charles Dickens)

We can even honor a date.

31. You hide yourself in this pretext, but I am going to cover my beloved brother with earth until I bury him. (Sophocles)

Honor your friends, for they are also your family.

32. When we are in front of worthy people, we should try to imitate them. (Confucius)

Follow the examples of good people.

33. To me there has never been a greater earthly source of honor or distinction than that connected with the advances of science. (Isaac Newton)

Science is committed to the betterment of mankind.

34. When we stand before unworthy people, we should look at ourselves and correct our mistakes. (Confucius)

Bad people should be an example of what we should avoid.

35. When those who command lose their shame, those who obey lose their respect. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

A leader must transmit values.

36. The more honor, the more pain. (Spanish proverb)

When honor brings discomfort.

37. Do you not distinguish between devotion and hypocrisy? (Molière)

There are those who flatter you only because they are interested in what you have.

38. If honor were profitable, everyone would be honorable. (Andrés Bello)

Not everyone sees the importance of honor.

39. Ability without honor is useless. (Thomas More)

If you do not maintain your humility, you lose your humanity.

40. The man who interprets nature is always celebrated with great honor. (Zora Neale Hurston)

When we respect nature, nature repays us.

41. Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak about everything. (Blaise Pascal)

It is nature that gives us home.

42. I am not a hero, but the brave men who died deserved this honor. (Ira Hayes)

Those who risk their lives for a good cause deserve to be admired.

43. Honor is the poetry of duty. (Alfred Victor de Vigny)

It is our duty to maintain good values.

44. Death is not eternal ... dishonor is. (Rick Remender)

There are those who do not recover from dishonor.

45. It is preferable to die with honor than to live with the shame of a tyrant dictating our courses. (Subcomandante Marcos)

When we do wrong, no one remembers us with joy.

46. A true man of honor is humbled when he cannot avoid humiliating others. (Robert E. Lee)

It is never necessary to trample on others in order to succeed.

47. The greatest crime is to prefer life to honor and, by living life, to lose the reason for living. (Juvenal)

Do you really enjoy your life?

48. The man who loses honor for business, loses both business and honor. (Anonymous)

It is like selling your soul to the devil of consumerism.

49. Honor is the external conscience, and conscience, the internal honor. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Honor comes from our beliefs.

To such a lord, such an honor. (Proverb)

Our honor is in the way we act.

51. To flee only serves to die tired and without honor. (Arturo Perez Reverte)

Running away from trouble will not keep them from pursuing you.

52. I don't like warriors; narrow-minded and not at all fine. Honor! Honor has killed thousands and never saved anyone! (Gary Leonard Oldman)

Honor is also a trap for killing.

53. In general, the way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death. (Miyamoto Musashi)

Warriors lived for fighting and death.

54. Honor is not won in a day so that in a day it can be lost. He who in one hour can cease to be honored, it is because he was never honored. (Jacinto Benavente)

Honesty is not so easily lost.

55. You have recovered your honor. Let me keep mine. (Ken Watanabe)

Everyone is responsible for his actions.

56. We laugh at honor and then we are surprised to find traitors among us. (C. S. Lewis)

If you have no respect for others, no one will have respect for you.

57. The greatest honor that history can bestow is that of peacemaker. (Richard M. Nixon)

History should teach us to pursue peace.

58. Any weapon is a good weapon as long as you can use it with honor and skill. (Brian Jacques)

The purpose for using weapons should be to defend ourselves.

59. It is wiser to restrain children by honor and tenderness, than by fear and punishment. (Terence)

Children should learn honor and values.

60. As nothing is more beautiful than to know the truth, nothing is more shameful than to approve the lie and take it for truth. (Cicero)

Lying only creates breaches of distrust.

61. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. (Calvin Coolidge)

Honor is in what we give.

62. You were given a choice between dishonor or war. You chose dishonor and now you will have war. (Winston Churchill)

Those who lose respect for others must pay the consequences.

63. Our own heart, and not the opinions of other men, forms our true honor. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Our honor is formed by our beliefs and the way we perceive the world.

64. What is loyalty? The honor of love. (Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann)

The honor that arises when we love.

65. My honor is my loyalty. (Anonymous)

Loyalty should be to those who love us.

66. He who craves glory must take leave of honor in time and master the difficult art of leaving at the right moment. (Friederich Nietzsche)

It seems that glory and honor cannot always go hand in hand.

67. To the older man, give honor. (Spanish proverb)

All elders deserve our respect and admiration.

68. Humility forms the basis of honor, just as low ground forms the basis of great elevation. (Bruce Lee)

Our humility is the basis of any courage.

69. It makes your sacrifice an act of honor. (Morgan Freeman)

Every sacrifice should be seen as an enormous act of kindness.

70. In a corrupt spirit there is no room for honor. (Tacitus)

Corruption kills honor.

71. Honor is simply the morality of superior men. (H.L. Mencken)

Our morality is not what society imposes, but the good deeds we do on our own.

72. Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger but it won't taste good. (Joe Paterno)

It is an empty achievement that will not last long.

73. Honor is the patrimony of the soul, and the soul belongs only to God. (Pedro Calderón de la Barca)

Honor is a sign of what we have within us.

74. Ambition honor, do not honor ambition. (Proverb)

Ambition should be a motivator, not an obsession.

75. The noble soul possesses the great quality of being passionate about honest things. (Seneca)

Good values lead us to choose honesty.

76. A man of honor always keeps his promises. (Paul Newman)

Make your word count.

77. A man's honor is not in the hands of others; it is in ourselves and not in public opinion. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

Your value is not in the opinions of others, but in what you believe about yourself.

78. There the owner lost her honor, where she spoke badly and heard worse. (Spanish proverb)

It is better to verify the information than to sin of ignorance.

79. Posterity gives to each one the honor that corresponds to him. (Tacitus)

It is with time that we discover what a person is really like.

80. Without integrity and honor, having everything means nothing. (Robin Sharma)

When we lose our honor, even if we have everything, there will always be an emptiness that will not be filled.

81. The best way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. (Socrates)

Be who you want to be and do not regret it.

82. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. (Aristotle)

It is of no use to have a title if it is bought.

83. Honor that is sold is always paid more dearly than it is worth. (Jacques Duclos)

There are people who have a value they do not deserve.

84. A nation is known by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

A nation must ensure the quality of life for all its people.

Don't grant them a tear! Tears please them! Show your honor, now, show a heart of stone and sink them with it! (Arthur Miller)

Let no man make you less.

86. True honor is an outflow from a heart that fears God. (John Bevere)

Honor is also tied to faith.

87. Honor and reward are the springs that keep man's spirit from slumbering. (Manuel Belgrano)

When our efforts are recognized, our internal value increases.

88. Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honor and attention. (Sonia Rumzi)

Appreciate those who teach you their knowledge.

89. Honor your life. (Robert E. Lee)

Make your life something you are proud of.

90. Honor must begin in the heart, but if it ends there, it is not honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions. (Douglas Wilson)

If you do not do good deeds from the heart, they will never have meaning.