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Quotes about Honor

Indeed, we may go further and assert that anyone who does not delight in fine actions is not even a good man.
— Aristotle
My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.
— CS Lewis
Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.
— Teresa of Avila
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
— Laurence Sterne
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
— Edmund Burke
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
— George Bernard Shaw
There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.
— GK Chesterton
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christ assigns as a duty to every man the dignity of every woman: and simultaneously... He also assigns to every woman the dignity of every man.
— Pope John Paul II
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
— John Tillotson
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
— Joseph Heller
The insignia meant a lot to the men who were fighting ... I had to do it ... I owed it to them.
— Walt Disney