Fight in the name of honor. If you have to be wounded again, shed your blood like a salutary dew and smile.
“Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.”
— Herbert Hoover
Teach to respect, honor and love the human individuality, educate young people to respect their elders, at least their own parents, and cemeteries will beautify themselves.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
I longed to make some returns to God; but found I had nothing to return: I could only rejoice, that God had done the work himself; and that none in heaven or earth might pretend to share the honour of it with him.
—David Brainerd
Theology is the science which derives the knowledge of God from His revelation, which studies and thinks into it under the guidance of His Spirit, and then tries to describe it so that it ministers to His honor.
—Herman Bavinck
A soul doth never glorify or honour Christ upon a discovery or sense of the eternal redemption he hath purchased for him, but it is in him a peculiar effect of the Holy Ghost as our comforter.
—John Owen
Do what your body demands of you—attain glory, honor, wealth—and your life will be a hell. Do what your soul demands of you—attain humility, mercy, love—and you’ll have no need of any heaven. Heaven will be in your soul.
—Leo Tolstoy
Do what your body demands of you—attain glory, honor, wealth—and your life will be a hell. Do what your soul demands of you—attain humility, mercy, love—and you’ll have no need of any heaven. Heaven will be in your soul.
—Leo Tolstoy
“[Christ] is sitting at the right hand of God in the place of honour and favour. This is a proof that we are beloved and favoured of God, for our representative has the choicest place, at God’s right hand.”
Don’t honor the wealthy, don’t envy them; keep your distance from them and pity them.
—Leo Tolstoy
“A precious Christ makes us precious: such honour have all the saints.”
– Charles Spurgeon
If you honor what’s ethical, chances are you won’t have to worry about what’s legal.
—Peter R. Rose
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
“If I know God, and yet live for my own profit, for my own honor, for my own comfort, then I do not glorify God as God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Trample underfoot the world, and the things of the world; all these riches, honours, pleasures. What is the world to thee? Let the dead bury their dead; but follow thou after the image of God.
—John Wesley
Attend to living; and if you can’t have the honors of the country as the other citizens do, let it suffice you to have bread and live virtuously in Christ and poorly.
—Michelangelo
Oh Lord, when I think how little I have done, I am ashamed and confounded, and I would fain honour God more than I have yet done.
—William Wilberforce
However any may pretend that they thankfully take notice of God’s goodness, it is a vain pretense if they don’t study to please and honor him.
—Jonathan Edwards
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
—Plato
You should not honor men more than truth.
—Plato
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
—Charles Dickens
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
You may abandon your own body but you must preserve your honour.
—Miyamoto Musashi
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
—Julius Caesar
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
—Plato
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
—Socrates
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
—Immanuel Kant
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
—Aristotle
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
O God, how little do I deserve all ye honour thou puttest upon me, but may I be more active in thy service and live more by faith, doing all to the glory of God, and in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the Father through him.
—William Wilberforce