What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?
Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.
To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America's important strategies in space.
The strongest passion which I have is honor.
Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth. . . and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.
In schools all over the world, little boys learn that their country is the greatest in the world, and the highest honor that could befall them would be to defend it heroically someday. The fact that empathy has traditionally been conditioned out of boys facilitates their obedience to leaders who order them to kill strangers.
The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
Religion, society and state - from none of these do women get their proper honor. It is religion, which has created an unparalleled disparity between men and women.
Ohhhso hard to say, but George Harrison was pretty darn special. Such a great guybeautiful person and amazing songwritermusician. A real honor for me to have played on his last tour
Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.
Don't come giving me, who's old enough to die and too near blind to create anything any more anyhow, a great big banquet that you eat up in honor of your own stomachs as much as in honor of me- who's toothless and can't eat.
Honor is the presence of God in man.
Great learning and superior abilities. . . will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.
If there is one word that describes the meaning of character, it is the word honor. Without honor, civilization would not long exist. Without honor, there could be no dependable contracts, no lasting marriages, no trust or happiness. What does the word honor mean to you? To me, honor is summarized in this expression by the poet Tennyson, "Man's word [of honor] is God in man. "