Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller (Summer on the Lakes)
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
Leonardo da Vinci (Note-books)
There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
John W. Gardner (“The aims of a Free People” Excellence)
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
George Bush
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain
Honor and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander Pope (An Essay on Man)
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann (A Preface to Morals)