The 90 best phrases of honor

For many cultures, honor is everything; It is not only seen as one of the most important values ​​of the human being, but it is a lifestyle that everyone should as a reference to know what to do at all times.

Honor would be what gives value to our words, promises and actions, so when failing in any of those, we are exposed as people with serious moral failures.

In this article you will find a selection of the best quotes about honor, commented.

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The 90 most inspiring phrases of honor

This is a compilation of quotes and reflections on honor that are inspiring and help to understand this value.

1. Everyone loves life, but the brave and honest man appreciates honor more. (William Shakespeare)

For many people throughout history, honor has been the mainstay of existence.

2. The samurai who failed his lord suffered a dishonor worse than death. (Virginia Schomp)

The samurai were known to place great importance on his honor.

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3. Serving others in their time of need is a privilege and an honor. (Harley King)

Helping those in need is more than a show of empathy; it can be understood as a duty.

4. Honor consists in making what one is obliged to do beautiful. (Alfred Victor de Vigny)

Enjoy what you do.

5. You know when you should go and when you should not accept less than what you deserve. If so, you are an honorable man!

It will hurt, but you better leave where you are not appreciated.

6. Honor is the presence of God in man. (Pat Conroy)

Honor as a divine value.

7. I give up the honors, but not the fight. (Eva Peron)

Sometimes we have to give up something important to continue.

8. There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only disgrace in not competing because you are afraid of losing. (Garth Stein)

The real loss is when we don't try.

9. Honor is like armor... it keeps you safe. (George R.R. Martin)

Acting well helps you have better relationships.

10. When there is an excess of love, man loses his honor and his worth. (Euripides)

Love can be a dirty move.

11. If you can enrich yourself by keeping honor, good faith, magnanimity, don't excuse it. (Epictetus of Phrygia)

Succeeding is no reason to lose honor.

12. A man can lose his honor and get it back again. (Cormac McCarthy)

Honor is earned with our good deeds.

14. Now I know that no one can give you your honor, it is something that you earn for yourself by choosing the right thing.

Your value is placed by yourself.

15. Success without honor is the greatest of failures. (Vicente del Bosque)

There are those who, being at the top, lose their humility.

16. The love to no one of honor and to all gives pain.

It is common to lose honor in matters of love.

17. A true gentleman apologizes anyway, even though he has not intentionally offended a lady. (Shannon Alder)

An apology saves a misunderstanding.

18. I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. (Julius Caesar)

A title is a sample of our effort.

19. The honor of a maiden is in a bad tongue.

Libel can ruin anyone's reputation.

20. It is not titles that honor men, but men who honor titles. (Niccolò Machiavelli)

It is useless to have a title if later it will be done wrong.

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21. The people should not be content with their leaders doing well, they should aspire that they can never do wrong. (Mariano Moreno)

An important reflection on what we expect from politicians.

22. On horseback, a runner and a quarreling man, their honor does not last long. (Spanish saying)

A popular saying about the permanence of honor.

23. Know that it is not my interest that guides my honor, but my honor that directs my interest. (William Shakespeare)

Let good manners guide you.

24. We are all always inclined to seek the forbidden and to covet what is denied us. (François Rabelais)

Temptation is always present.

25. My mentality is that of a samurai. I'd rather commit seppuku than fail. (Elon Musk)

A radical decision about achieving your goals.

26. Honor consists in making what one is obliged to do beautiful. (Alfred Victor de Vigny)

When we love what we do, we do it well.

27. Be honorable if you want to associate with honorable people. (James Welch)

Be careful with the people around you.

28. Honor is a steep, shoreless island: he who has fallen from it cannot climb back up. (Nicolas Boileau)

An interesting reflection on the loss of honor.

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29. The man of honor has no country other than that in which the rights of citizens are protected and the sacred character of humanity is respected. (Simon Bolivar)

Respect is a fundamental part of honor.

30. I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all year long. (Charles Dickens)

We can even honor a date.

31. You hide behind this pretext, but I am going to cover my beloved brother with earth until he is buried. (Sophocles)

Honor your friends, because they are your family too.

32. When we are in front of worthy people, we must try to imitate them. (Confucius)

Follow the examples of good people.

33. For me there has never been a greater earthly source of honor or distinction than that related to advances in science. (Isaac Newton)

Science is committed to improving humanity.

34. When we are in front of unworthy people, we must look at ourselves and correct our mistakes. (Confucius)

Bad people should be an example of what to avoid.

35. When those who rule lose their shame, those who obey lose respect. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)

A leader must transmit values.

36. The more honor, the more pain. (Spanish saying)

When honor brings annoyance.

37. Can't you distinguish between devotion and hypocrisy? (Molière)

There are those who flatter you just because they are interested in what you have.

38. If honor were profitable, everyone would be honorable. (Andres Bello)

Not everyone sees the importance of honor.

39. Skill without honor is useless. (Thomas More)

If you don't maintain your humility, you lose your humanity.

40. The man who interprets nature is always celebrated with great honor. (Zora Neale Hurston)

When we respect nature, it rewards us.

41. Those who honor nature well, who teach that she can speak about everything. (Blaise Pascal)

It is nature that gives us home.

42. I am not a hero, but the brave who died deserved this honor. (Ira Hayes)

Those who risk their lives for a good cause deserve to be admired.

43. Honor is the poetry of duty. (Alfred Victor de Vigny)

It is our duty to maintain good values.

44. Death is not eternal... dishonor is. (Rick Remender)

There are those who do not recover from a disgrace.

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45. It is better to die with honor than to live with the shame of a tyrant dictating our directions. (Subcomandante Marcos)

When we do wrong, no one remembers us with joy.

46. A true man of honor feels humiliated when he cannot help but humiliate others. (Robert E. Read)

You never need to trample others to succeed.

47. The greatest crime is to prefer life to honor and, by living life, to lose the reason to live. (Juvenal)

Do you really enjoy your life?

48. That man who loses honor for business, loses business and honor. (Anonymous)

It's like selling your soul to the devil of consumerism.

49. Honor is external consciousness, and consciousness is internal honor. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Honor comes from our beliefs.

50. Such a lord, such an honor. (Saying)

Our honor is in the way we act.

51. Running away only serves to die tired and without honor. (Arturo Pérez Reverte)

Running from problems will not prevent you from being pursued.

52. I don't like warriors; narrow-minded and not fine at all. The honor! Honor has killed thousands and has never saved anyone! (Gary Leonard Oldman)

Honor is also a trap to kill.

53. In general, the way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death. (Miyamoto Musashi)

Warriors lived for fight and death.

54. Honor is not earned in one day so that it can be lost in one day. Who in an hour can stop being honest, is that he never was. (Jacinto Benavente)

Honesty is not so easy to lose.

55. You have regained your honor. Let me keep mine. (Ken Watanabe)

Everyone is responsible for his actions.

56. We laugh at honor and then we are surprised to find traitors among us. (C. S. Lewis)

If you don't have respect for others, no one will have it for you.

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57. The greatest honor history can bestow is peacemaker. (Richard M. Nixon)

History should teach us to pursue peace.

58. Any weapon is a good weapon as long as you can use it with honor and skill. (Brian Jacques)

The purpose of using weapons must be to defend ourselves.

59. It is more appropriate to restrain children out of honor and tenderness, than out of fear and punishment. (Terence)

Children must learn honor and values.

60. Since nothing is more beautiful than knowing the truth, nothing is more shameful than approving the lie and taking it for truth. (Cicero)

Lying only creates gaps of mistrust.

61. No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. (Calvin Coolidge)

The honor is in what we give.

62. They gave you a choice between dishonor or war. You chose dishonor and now you will have war. (Winston Churchill)

Those who lose respect for others must pay the consequences.

63. Our own hearts, and not the opinions of other men, form our true honor. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Our honor is shaped by beliefs and the way we perceive the world.

64. What is loyalty? The honor of love. (Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann)

The honor that arises when we love.

65. My honor is my loyalty. (Anonymous)

Loyalty should be to those who love us.

66. Whoever craves glory must bid farewell to honor in time and master the difficult art of leaving at the right time. (Friederich Nietzsche)

It seems that glory and honor cannot always go hand in hand.

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67. To the older man, give him honor. (Spanish saying)

All older people deserve our respect and admiration.

68. Humility forms the basis of honor, just as low ground forms the basis of great elevation. (Bruce Lee)

Our humility is the foundation of any value.

69. Make your sacrifice an act of honor. (Morgan Freeman)

All sacrifice should be seen as an enormous act of kindness.

70. In a corrupted spirit there is no room for honor. (Tacit)

Corruption kills honor.

71. Honor is simply the morality of superior men. (H.L. Mencken)

Our morality is not what society imposes, but the good acts that we do on our own.

72. Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; It will satisfy your hunger but it won't taste good. (Joe Paterno)

It is an empty achievement that will not last long.

73. Honor is the heritage of the soul, and the soul belongs only to God. (Pedro Calderón de la Barca)

Honor is a sample of what we have inside us.

74. Be ambitious for honor, don't honor ambition. (Saying)

Ambition should be a motivator, not an obsession.

75. The noble soul possesses the great quality of being passionate about honest things. (Seneca)

Good values ​​lead us to choose honesty.

76. A man of honor, he always keeps his promises. (Paul Newman)

Make your word count.

77. The honor of one man is not in the hands of others; he is in ourselves and not in public opinion. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

Your value is not in the opinions of others, but in what you believe about yourself.

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78. There the owner lost her honor, where she spoke badly and heard worse. (Spanish saying)

It is better to verify the information than to be ignorant.

79. Posterity gives to each the honor that corresponds to him. (Tacit)

It is with time that we discover what a person really is like.

80. Without integrity and without honor, having everything means nothing. (Robin Sharma)

When we lose our honor, even if we have everything, there will always be a void that will not be filled.

81. The best way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. (Socrates)

Be who you want to be and don't regret it.

82. Dignity does not consist in owning honors, but in deserving them. (Aristotle)

There is no use having a title if it is purchased.

83. The honor that is sold is always paid more dearly than it is worth. (Jacques Duclos)

There are people who have a value that they do not deserve.

84. A nation is known by the men it produces, but also by the men it honors. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)

A nation must ensure the quality of life of all its people.

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85. Don't grant them a tear! Tears please them! Show your honor, now, show a heart of stone and sink them with it! (Arthur Miller)

Don't let anyone make you less.

86. True honor is a departure from a heart that fears God. (John Bevere)

Honor is also tied to faith.

87. The honor and the prize are the springs so that the spirit of man does not fall asleep. (Manuel Belgrano)

When our efforts are recognized, our inner worth increases.

88. Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honor, and attention. (Sonia Rumzi)

Appreciate those who teach you their knowledge.

89. Honor your life. (Robert E. Read)

Make your life something you are proud of.

90. Honor must begin in the heart, but if it ends there, it is not honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions. (Douglas Wilson)

If you don't do good deeds with your heart, they will never have meaning.