Quotes about Honor
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
— Abraham Lincoln
I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.
— George Washington
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.
— Samuel Johnson
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his soul, and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.
— George Washington
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.
— John Milton
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.
— Abraham Lincoln
They do us honor by seeing gods in us, and we respond by treating them like things.
— JM Coetzee
And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.
— Jack Kerouac
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower