Quotes about Honor

Contrary to popular belief, love is actually a reflection of how much we 'honor' another person—for at its core genuine love is a decision, not a feeling.

If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.

If you build a society in which children honor their parents, your society will long survive. And the corollary is: a society in which children do not honor their parents is doomed to self-destruction. In our time, this connection between honoring parents and maintaining civilization is not widely recognized.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

Do right. Do your best.

With their pens, and no less great with their swords—fearing God very much, and fearing men very little,—they were a generation of men who have never received from their country the honor that they deserve.

Do we honor them for the extras? No, a thousand times no. We [honor them] because God gave us the charge to honor all.

Jesus wasn't seeking His own honor, but rather modeling the Honor Principle to the ones He was sent to.

The king was to read the Word of God every day. Why? God's wisdom and honor were to be established in his heart so that he would esteem God's ways above man's ideas.

I would rather go through this valley to find the honor that true wise men seek than choose those things that this man and his worldly friends think most worthy of our affections.

humility comes before honor and a haughty spirit before a fall.