Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.

Honor lies in honest toil.

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.

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

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

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor… I fought to win.

It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion — these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough.

Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.

Let my honor be without stain.

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

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

One may survive distress, but not disgrace.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

The higher the culture the more honorable the work.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

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