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Honor does not have to be defended. – Robert J. Sawyer
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love. – Bryant McGill
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. – Winston Churchill
The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself. – Joseph Sobran
My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. – Herbert Hoover
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. – Socrates
Lay aside the thirst for honor from others and seek to honor others instead – The Omani shed
I thought Spartans fought with honor. Yet you seek to kill me when I have no way to defend myself? Not fair! – Hermes
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted. – Andrew Carnegie
'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. – David Borenstein
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate. – La Rochefoucauld
A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself. – Marguerite de Valois
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. – Sir Winston Churchill
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in education these days arises, not from defects in the students,teachers or schools, not from want of equipment or technology, but from the downright ignorance of the nature of honor, virtue and kindness. Sound education... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection of childhood, on unselfish performance of teachers and on accountability and reliability. – Paul. F. Meekin
Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards. – Homer
An honor is not diminished for being shared. – Lois McMaster Bujold
Any necessary work that pays an honest wage carries its own honor and dignity. – W. Kelly Griffith
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War) – Richard Milhous Nixon
Be not ashamed of thy virtues honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. – Ben Jonson
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness. – John Howe
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station. – Joseph Addison
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having. – Juvenal, Satires
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having. – Juvenal
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. – Kahlil Gibran
Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family. – Vartan Gregorian

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