Top 565 Honor Quotes

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.
John Woo
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
T. E. Lawrence
I’ve had the honor to be in sessions with great artists.
Sevyn Streeter
The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don’t feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it’s like I’m doing my job.
J. R. Martinez
The law often allows what honor forbids.
Bernard Joseph Saurin
I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive – the power is in love and forgiveness.
Dick Gephardt
The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.
Lincoln Steffens
I’m honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team – a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it’s a huge honor for me to be named captain.
Daniel Cormier
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
Pierre Corneille
Honor is but an empty bubble.
John Dryden
It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.
Louis Bacon
What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun?
Iyanla Vanzant
The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her.
Catherine of Siena
Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.
Gary Hamel
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.
Wayne Dyer
Christians are not in bondage to do things as the world does, and moreover, the traditions and rudiments of men are not necessary to honor God.
Monica Johnson
It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it’s the kind of thing that makes me feel like – even as it’s been bestowed upon me – I must continue to live up to what it means… Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
Natasha Trethewey
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It’s more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
Lloyd Banks
I am faithfully devoted to the Republic but will not serve it at the expense of my conscience and my honor.
Toussaint Louverture
No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
Herbert Hoover
Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn’t honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
Patrick Dempsey
I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
Kate Hudson
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
Aron Ralston
It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
Ada Yonath
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
Ring Of Honor was so great to me and so great to many y

Ring Of Honor was so great to me and so great to many young talents where they really give you the ball.
Adam Cole
I think it’s fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.
John O’Keefe
It’s an honor for me to contribute to Houston’s younger generations and show them that ‘smart is cool.’
Walter O’Brien
We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the United States in our history, bar none – including President Lincoln.
Nigel Hamilton
The presidency awed me, but presidents do not. Perhaps I have always expected too much of them, but I believe that when they reach the highest office in the land, they should live up to the greatest honor that can come to a person in American political life. Some have stood the test better than others.
Helen Thomas
God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.
John Hagee
To serve in the modern military – or to be the uncle, parent or sibling of one who does – is to treat the necessary service and sacrifice of war with a sacred honor. In my community, we pile into cars and drive hundreds of miles to watch our children’s graduation from basic training.
J. D. Vance
It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I’ve done my job.
Aretha Franklin
I think that no matter whether you’re Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it’s like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Robert Osborne
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Zhuangzi
Unfortunately, I don’t look as Latin as I am. I get called a white guy a lot, but I am very proud of my heritage. I try my hardest to bring honor to my Mexican roots. Latin people are very passionate and loyal, and I will always remember who I am and where I come from.
Ryan Guzman
My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entire lives, considered their decision to serve during WWII as their greatest honor.
Burgess Owens
In the film business, it’s basically honor among thieves.
Abel Ferrara
Inarritu’s own nomination for Best Director for ‘Babel’ was the first such honor for a Mexican director.
Elvis Mitchell
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their – shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
Henry Cabot Lodge
Everyone says, ‘It’s just an honor to be nominated,’ but that’s so not true. You want to win.
Chris Kirkpatrick
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
Saint Ambrose
The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?
Billy Preston
There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won’t be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did.
Jorge Posada
You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.
Willard Libby
Everybody needs money, but I’m a fighter. For what I make, I’m happy with what I make. The money is not everything; it’s about honor.
Rafael dos Anjos
For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.
Deepak Chopra
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
David D. Burns
Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.
Henry Laurens
It is an honor to open in New York City and to have the opportunity to serve and share our family’s version of American Chinese food and hospitality. New York City deeply influenced my passion for food and service, and it feels good to be back.
Andrew Cherng
I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It’s an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.
John Cho
I’ve actually been in more Elimination Chamber matches than any other human being on the planet. It really has been a badge of honor for me.
Chris Jericho
The sailor’s life is at the best a life of danger. He pursues honor on the mountain wave and finds it in the battle and in the storm, and never did more distinguished chivalry display itself than in the conduct of our seamen during the late war.
John Tyler
If we want our daughters to honor their bodies, they need to hear us honor ours, no matter what size or shape we are, no matter what scars or sags we see in that mirror.
Regina Brett
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will sa

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good.
Joe Paterno