Dignity and Honour

 

 

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Calvin Coolidge

 

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

 

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

 

There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.

J. R. R. Tolkien

 

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Mark Twain

 

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

 

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Aristotle

 

The time is always right to do what is right.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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