13 quotes
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward of what he gave.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Every post is honorable in which a man can serve his country.”
— George Washington
“There are defeats more triumphant than victories.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.”
— Book of Proverbs
“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”
— Alexander Pope
“When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness but kindness always brings both”
— Euripides
“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud”
— Sophocles
“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”
“Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honor.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honour.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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