Personal Honor Quotes

Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.

Death always before dishonor. (Julian)

Great nations like great men must keep their word.

Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Honor lies in honest toil.

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

The noble soul reveres itself

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

My mentality is that of a samurai. I would rather commit seppuku than fail.

Fred Astaire told me things I will never forget. Gene Kelly also said he liked my dancing. It was a fantastic experience because I felt I had been inducted into an informal fraternity of dancers, and I felt so honored because these were the people I most admired in the world.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

I'm always honored to be speaking alongside Deepak Chopra.

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

My biggest dream from the moment I started playing soccer was to join the national side. I was privileged to be part of the team and to serve as its captain and there's no greater honor.

Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

As someone who grew up in a logging and rail town and hiking in Glacier National Park, I am honored and humbled to be asked to serve Montana and America as secretary of interior.

If I conduct myself publicly and privately in a way that is honorable, not just to the people of the district that I represent but to God, then I will feel like I have been successful.

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.