True Honor Quotes

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

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

For titles do not reflect honor on men, but rather men on their titles.

Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.

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

Illustrious man! deriving honor less from the splendor of his situation than from the dignity of his mind.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

True honor is an outflow from a heart that fears God.

A man of true honor protects the unwritten word which binds his conscience more scrupulously, if possible, than he does the bond a breach of which subjects him to legal liabilities, and the United States, in aiming to maintain itself as one of the most enlightened nations, would do its citizens gross injustice if it applied to its international relations any other than a high standard of honor and morality.

The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.