As per a recent request, here’s my collection of Honor Quotes. Hopefully you will find something enlightening here:
All are not just because they do no wrong; but he who will not wrong me when he may, he is truly just. -Richard Cumberland
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster. -Livy
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offensive soul alive. -Shakespeare
Honor is most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house to build our monument. -Colton
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor. -Coleridge
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -Calvin Coolidge
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw. -Bossuet
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. -Voltaire
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. -Addison
The effective impact upon us of men of honor, rectitude and goodwill is to arouse kindred impules within us. We begin to detect in ourselves undeveloped capacities. The touch of the heroic awakens in us the slumbering hero.
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Fellowship with a true servant of mankind calls into action our latent impulses. -Charles Malcolm Douglas
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -Addison
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
In believing in others, we are believed. In supporting others, we gain followers, and in recognizing the value of others, we are honored. -Solon B. Cousins
There never was a person who did anything worth doing who did not receive more than he gave. -Henry Ward Beecher
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. -Andrew Carnegie
Honor is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. She builds a lofty structure on the sandy foundation of the esteem of those who are of all beings the most subject to change. -Colton
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them. -Socrates
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. -Marcus T. Cicero (106-43BC)
Which of these honor quotes jump out at you? Which ones do you like the most? Please comment below.
Its wonderful to have you around and most unique to read ur motivational quotes. Bless you
In believing in others, we are believed. In supporting others, we gain followers, and in recognizing the value of others, we are honored. -Solon B. Cousins
Thanks Shaun, I have found several of these quotes to be of value, particularly the quote from Solon B. Cousins. With acceptation those who serve in the military or in a high risk civil servant capacity, we live in a day when men and women we value are rarely honored. The honest man who never wavers in his ability to stand for the truth, the hard working mother who sacrifices her own happiness to give her children and the children in her neighborhood a better life, or the senior citizen who spends his remaining years comforting those who are in pain around her while she herself seeks no aid.
We have heroic people who live among us everywhere who are rarely recognized for their heroism and who, when asked, would likely decline recognition. None-the-less, when they are honored, they lift our eyes and inspire us and create for us challenges to live up to and give us higher standards to which we can all aspire.
America is lost as a nation on the day we fail to inspire the next generation to aspire higher.
Hmmm…maybe I ought to make a page on heroes….
I fully agree with you David, sometimes we need to take a good look around, all the volunteers that help those in need asking nothing in return. Life is not easy for many these days.
Take care!
My favorite quote on this page is “The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. –Voltaire”. This quote holds so much truth in my job! Thank you for sharing.
Also, I received your book today! Thank you so much for the tiny book of quotes. I didn’t realize you are in Canada!
Thanks Amber. Glad you got the book ok too. Yeah, I guess I’ve been a bit tight-lipped about my location and other personal stuff lately. I used to post pictures about my travels around the province and talk about myself, but don’t do it much anymore.
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor. -Coleridge
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -Calvin Coolidge
In believing in others, we are believed. In supporting others, we gain followers, and in recognizing the value of others, we are honored. -Solon B. Cousins
These quotes captured my thoughts…..
There are many people who do good deeds every day in helping others less fortunate. Foster parents, carers for sick people, loving sons and daughters who care for their parents in their old age. Everyone who has to battle to survive and care for their families these days. Those who give of their heart and soul to help others in need, when they just get by themselves. Their are children who need to help cripple parents and they do it with no complaints, giving up so much of their time. There are so many wonderful people in this world, I call them earth angels, they are sure to get their wings.
Wishing you all a beautiful day!
I am on board Lee. Great people live among us who help make life so much better for so many and do so with such humility that they easily go unnoticed. It is these people whom I hope to honor with my life by following their example and conducting my affairs with equal humility and selflessness.
Hi Shawn. I really appreciate the quotes. You make my days and motivate me so much. May you always be in good health. Is the book talked about above being sold?
Yes, Doreen. It’s my book of quotes that you can see here: http://www.happypublishing.com/tell-me-about-your-book.htm
The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
This is phrase that caught my interest.Many times we want help, but only to realise that we can try to do it and be sucessful,with great satisfaction.Mission accomplish.