Honor Quotes

37 quotations about Honor

One may survive distress, but not disgrace.

Without money honor is merely a disease.

The higher the culture the more honorable the work.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Why should honor outlive honestly? [Orthello]

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not.

Better not be at all than not be noble.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

A fisherman may measure his catch by the size, but when is a man big enough to keep?

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

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