Quotes about honor
37 quotes from 31 people
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860), Worship
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XVIII.
Marcus Aurelius121–180III, 7
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 118: (p. 66)
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826The Declaration of Independence (1776), Declaration of Independence (1776)In context
Joseph Addison1672–1719Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
Ayn Rand1905–1982The Ayn Rand Letter (1971–1976)
John Greenleaf Whittier1807–1892Ichabod, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Aeschylus525–456 BCFragment 394 (222 Smyth), from an unidentified play. Included in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life, Vol. 1. Ch. 4: Position, or a Man’s Place in the Estimation of Others, §4-HonorUnblemish’d let me live, or die unknown;
O grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
Alexander Pope1688–1744The Temple of Fame (1711), Closing line
Henry James1843–1916The Portrait of a Lady (1881), Ch. XVI
Winston Churchill1874–1965United Europe Meeting, Albert Hall, London (May 14, 1947). Cited in Churchill by Himself, ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs (2008), p. 26
