Inspirational Quotes On Honor – 30+ Honor Quotes and Sayings

Inspirational Quotes on Honor

  • “Honor your life.” —Anonymous
  • “Honor one. Help many.” —Anonymous
  • “My honor is my loyalty.” —Anonymous
  • “Guard your honor.” —Lois Mcmaster Bujold
  • “Honor isn’t given it’s earned.” —Anonymous
  • “Honor never goes out of style.” —Anonymous
  • “Ability without honor is useless.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • “My pain is my badge of honor.” —Ray Lewis
  • “Without integrity and honor, having everything means nothing.” —Robin Sharma
  • “He who lives without discipline dies without honor.” —Icelandic Proverb
  • “Honor is simply the morality of superior men.” —H.L. Mencken
  • “Respect the training. Honor the commitment. Cherish the results.” —Anonymous
  • “Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.” —Proverb
  • “Stand for what is right. Even if it means standing alone.” —Anonymous
  • “My self-esteem is high because I honor who I am.” —Louise Hat
  • “I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.” —Sophocles
  • “True honor is an outflow from a heart that fears God.” —John Bevere
  • “It is not titles that honor men but men that honor titles.” —Niccolo Machiavelli
  • “Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.” —Wil Wheaton
  • “He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct.” —Walter Lippmann
  • “You can abandon your own body but never let go of your honor.” —Miyamoto Musashi
  • “Keep your word. Honor commitments and they will double back to honor you.” —Bill Rancic
  • “If you want to be a hero, you need to have dreams and honor.” —Angeal
  • “Leaders honor their core values but they are flexible in how they execute them.” —Colin Powell
  • “The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.” —George Washington
  • “A man of honor should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.” —Baltasar Gracian
  • “Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger but it won’t taste good.” —Joe Paterno
  • “Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Integrity is more valuable than income. Honor is richer than fame. Self-worth is wealthier than net worth.” —Robin Sharma
  • “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” —Calvin Coolidge
  • “Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.” —Bruce Lee
  • “You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.” —Aristotle
  • “All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” —Winston Churchill
  • “We treat people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.” —Mary Kay Ash
  • “O’ People! Try to be honest for God is the helper of honest people. Avoid telling lies since it will ruin your faith. Know that honest people are on the verge of nobility and honor, while liars are on the verge of collapse and destruction.” —Imam Ali (AS)

Honor Quotes and Sayings

  • “Honor is the reward of virtue.” —Cicero
  • “Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.” —Periander
  • “Honor lies in honest toil.” —Steven Grover Cleveland
  • “A man’s word is his honor.” —Japanese Proverb
  • “Who sows virtue reaps honor.” —Leonardo da Vinci
  • “Honour always wins, it is inevitable.” —Mitsunari Ishida
  • “Honor wears different coats to different eyes.” —Barbara Tuchman
  • “I intend to live forever, or die trying.” —Groucho Marx
  • “Honor does not have to be defended.” —Robert J. Sawyer
  • “If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.” —Thomas More
  • “Honor is the presence of God in man.” —Pat Conroy
  • “Honor is simply the morality of superior men.” —Henry Louis Mencken
  • “A hundred years cannot repair a moment’s loss of honor.” —Proverb
  • “Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.” —Thomas Jefferson
  • “He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.” —Publilius Syrus
  • “An honor is not diminished for being shared.” —Lois McMaster Bujold
  • “Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.” —Herbert Hoover
  • “Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.” —Oseph Addison
  • “A man without honor is worse than dead.” —Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • “I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” —Julius Caesar
  • “Honor is like a match, you can only use it once.” —Marcel Pagnol
  • “It is little honor to the lion to seize the mouse.” —German Proverb
  • “True honor is an outflow from a heart that fears God.” —John Bevere
  • “Honor isn’t about making the right choices. It’s about dealing with the consequences.” —Sophocles
  • “No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.” —Publilius Syrus
  • “Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
  • “National honor is the national property of the highest value.” —Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • “He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.” —Walt Whitman
  • “Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, form our true honor.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • “You can abandon your own body, but never let go of your honor.” —Miyamoto Musashi
  • “Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.” —Ben Jonson
  • “Honour may not win power, but it wins respect. And respect earns power.” —Mitsunari Ishida
  • “The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” —Socrates
  • “The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.” —F. E. Smith
  • “No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.” —Herbert Hoover
  • “Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.” —Herbert Hoover
  • “It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” —Herman Hesse
  • “At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. —Maya Angelou
  • “The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.” —John L. Lewis
  • “If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.” —Pliny the Elder
  • “A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.” —Robert E. Lee
  • “Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious than life.” —William Shakespeare
  • “Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” —Lois McMaster Bujold
  • “Honor and shame from no condition rise; act well your part, there all the honor lies.” —Alexander Pope
  • “Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.” —Margaret Chase Smith
  • “Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.” —Joe Paterno
  • “No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” —Calvin Coolidge
  • “It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.” —Mark Twain
  • “Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.” —Nicolas Boileau-Despr_aux
  • “Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.” —Charles Caleb Colton
  • “When honor comes to you be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.” —John Boyle O’Reilly
  • “He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.” —Walter Lippmann
  • “We don’t honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight.” —John Bevere
  • “If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.” —William Arnot
  • “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.” —Jacques Bossuet
  • “Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.” —Akhenaton
  • “Honor is not the appendage of any social class. It is a way of life which may be freely chosen by any man or women, regardless of race, color, or creed.” — T. Braxton Woody
  • “Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions, or gestures. Honor is among the most incarnational of the virtues. It must have feet and hands.” —Douglas Wilson