Honor

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Honor is the concept of a direct relation between one's virtues (or "values") and their status within society.

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  • Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die
  • And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
  • Est Sularis oth Mithas
    • Translation: My Honor Is My Life
    • Sturm Brightblade from the Dragonlance saga
  • If your name means that much to you, live on and redeem it.
  • Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward. Whoever cannot take care of themself without that law is both. For a wounded man shall say to his assailant, "If I live, I will kill you, If I die, you are forgiven." Such is the rule of honor.
  • "Chose disgrace where obedience did not bring honour"
    • inscription on tombstone of Prussian General Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz, who received after the victory over Saxony an order by Frederick the Great to take and remove the famous library of Count Brühl to Berlin and who replied to his king: "This is unbefitting to an officer of His Majesty" and resigned his commission.
  • "Oh Lord! How many of these you surely have spilt over the world, who suffer for the black so-called honour what they would not suffer for you!" (Lázaro) [...] "I make you know that I am, as you see, a squire; but, by God!, if Ï meet the count on the street and he does not fully take off his hat before me, next time I will know to enter a house, simulating to have some business there, or cross to another street, if there is one, before he reaches me, so that I will not take off mine. That a hidalgo does not owe anything to anybody but God and the king, nor it is proper, being a good man, to lose a comma of care in regarding himself highly." (The Squire)
  • "Honor is what a man owns...."
    • Esteban Pallares "The Honorable Pallares" Pg.1,562
  • "Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
    • KJV Holy Bible (Exodus 20:12).
  • "To the King, one must give his possessions and his life; but honour is a possession of soul, and the soul is only God's."
  • "And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of the divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."
  • "... Honour ... remains awake in us like a last lamp in a temple that has been laid to waste."
  • "... during the time that the aristocracy was dominant, the concepts honour, loyalty, etc. were dominant, during the dominance of the bourgeoisie the concepts freedom, equality, etc."
  • "We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
  • "Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing."
  • "I will to my lord be true and faithful, and love all which he loves and shun all which he shuns."
  • "I will be forced to sink [the US ships], because even if I have one ship left I will proceed with the bombardment. Spain, the Queen and I prefer honour without ships than ships without honour."
  • "We have no other choice. Our submission would serve no end; if Germany is victorious, Belgium, whatever her attitude, will be annexed to the Reich. If die we must, better death with honour."
  • "To die with honour, when one can no longer live with honour."

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  • A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
  • A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
  • A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
  • A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
  • Ability without honor is useless.
  • As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.
  • As we honor and thank the brave men and women of our military who fight today to guarantee our freedom, we realize there is no greater force in the world than the energy of free people, and we must remember that spreading that energy is the best way to help our country remain free and secure.
  • Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
  • Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.
  • Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.
  • Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
  • Honor is the reward of virtue.
  • I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
  • It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
  • Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.
  • No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.


  • Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
  • Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
  • There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
  • To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
  • To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
  • Who is worthy of honor? The one who honors others.
  • You have to defend your honor. And your family.
  • Honor is a fool's trap.
    • Anonymous
  • Loyualte me lie
    • Translation: Loyalty binds me
    • Richard III
  • "Rather fail with honour than succeed by fraud"
  • "In contrast to the purely economically determined "class situation" we wish to designate as "status situation" every typical component of the life fate of men that is determined by a specific, positive or negative, social estimation of honour. This honour may be connected with any quality shared by a plurality, and, of course, it can be knit to a class situation: class distinctions are linked in the most varied ways with status distinctions. Property as such is not always recognised as a status qualification, but in the long run is, and with extraordinary regularity."
  • "Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. We in Poland do not know the concept of peace at any price. There is only one thing in the lives of men, nations and countries that is without price. That thing is honor."

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