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 lifestyle that everyone should use 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 those, we are exposed as people with serious moral failures.
In this article you will find a selection of the best phrases about honor commented.
24. We are all always inclined to seek what is forbidden and to covet what is denied to us. (François Rabelais)
Temptation is always present.
25. My mentality is that of a samurai. I’d rather commit seppuku than fail. (Elon Musk)
A radical decision to achieve your goals.
26. Honor consists of making beautiful what 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 and shoreless island: he who has fallen from it cannot climb back up. (Nicolas Boileau)
An interesting reflection on the loss of honor.
29. The man of honor has no homeland other than that in which the rights of citizens are protected and the sacred character of humanity is respected. (Simon Bolivar)
Respect is a fundamental part of honor.
30. I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all year round. (Charles Dickens)
We can even honor a date.
31. You hide behind this pretext, but I am going to cover my beloved brother with dirt until he is buried. (Sophocles)
Honor your friends, because 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. For me there has never been a greater earthly source of honor or distinction than that related to the advances of science. (Isaac Newton)
Science is committed to improving humanity.
34. When we are faced with unworthy people, we must look at ourselves and correct our mistakes. (Confucius)
Bad people should be an example of what we should avoid.
35. When those who rule lose shame, those who obey lose respect. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
A leader must transmit values.
36. The more honor, the more pain. (Spanish proverb)
When honor brings trouble.
37. Don’t you distinguish between devotion and hypocrisy? (Moliere)
There are those who flatter you just because they are interested in what you have.
38. If honor were profitable, everyone would be honorable. (Andres Bello)
Not everyone sees the importance of honor.
39. Skill 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, it gives us back.
41. Those who 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 directions. (Subcommander Marcos)
When we do wrong, no one remembers us with joy.
46. A true man of honor feels humiliated when he cannot help but humiliate others. (Robert E. Lee)
It is never necessary to trample on others to succeed.
47. The greatest crime is to prefer life to honor and, by living life, lose the reason for living. (Juvenal)
Do you really enjoy your life?
48. That man who loses honor for business, loses business and honor. (Anonymous)
It’s like selling your soul to the devil of consumerism.
49. Honor is external conscience, and conscience, internal honor. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Honor comes from our beliefs.
50. To such a lord, such an honour. (Saying)
Our honor is in the way we act.
51. Fleeing only serves to die tired and without honor. (Arturo Pérez Reverte)
Running away from problems won’t stop them from chasing you.
52. I don’t like warriors; narrow-minded and not at all fine. The honor! Honor has killed thousands and has never saved anyone! (Gary Leonard Oldman)
Honor is also a trap to kill.
53. In general, the path of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death. (Miyamoto Musashi)
Warriors lived for fight and death.
54. Honor is not gained in one day so that it can be lost in one day. Whoever in one hour can stop being honest, he never was. (Jacinto Benavente)
Honesty is not lost so easily.
55. You have recovered your honor. Let me keep mine. (Ken Watanabe)
Everyone is responsible for their actions.
56. We laugh at honor and then are surprised to find traitors among us. (C.S. Lewis)
If you don’t have respect for others, no one will have respect for you.
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57. The greatest honor that history can bestow is that of a 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 of using weapons should be to defend ourselves.
59. It is more appropriate to restrain children out of honor and tenderness, than out of fear and punishment. (Terentius)
Children must learn honor and values.
60. As nothing is more beautiful than knowing the truth, nothing is more shameful than approving a lie and taking it for truth. (Cicero)
Lying only creates gaps of mistrust.
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. They gave you the 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 hearts, and not the opinions of other men, form our true honor. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Our honor is shaped by beliefs and the way we perceive the world.
64. What is loyalty? The honor of love. (Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann)
The honor that comes when we love.
65. My honor is my loyalty. (Anonymous)
Loyalty should be towards those who love us.
66. He who desires glory must say goodbye to honor in time and master the difficult art of leaving at the right time. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Apparently glory and honor cannot always go hand in hand.
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67. To the older man, give honor. (Spanish proverb)
All adults 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 value.
69. He makes his sacrifice an act of honor. (Morgan Freeman)
Every sacrifice should be seen as an enormous act of kindness.
70. Honor has no place in a corrupted spirit. (Tacit)
Corruption kills honor.
71. Honor is simply the morality of superior men. (HL Mencken)
Our morality is not what society imposes, but the good acts 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 heritage of the soul, and the soul belongs only to God. (Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
Honor is a sample of what we have inside us.
74. Aspire to honor, do not honor ambition. (Saying)
Ambition should be a motivator, not an obsession.
75. The noble soul has 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.
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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 be ignorant.
79. Posterity gives to each the honor due to him. (Tacit)
It is over time that we discover what a person is really like.
80. Without integrity and without honor, having everything means nothing. (Robin Sharma)
When we lose our honor, even if we have everything, there will always be a void 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 don’t regret it.
82. Dignity does not consist of possessing honors, but of deserving them. (Aristotle)
There is no point in having a title if it is purchased.
83. The honor that is sold is always paid for more than it is worth. (Jacques Duclos)
There are people who have value that 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 of all its people.
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85. 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)
Don’t let anyone put you down.
86. True honor is a departure from a heart that fears God. (John Bevere)
Honor is also tied to faith.
87. Honor and reward are the springs so that the spirit of man does not fall asleep. (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 don’t do good deeds from the heart, they will never have meaning.
