“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
“Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.”
“Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.”
“The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.”
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
“As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.”
“When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.”
“The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.”
“Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.”
“There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.”
“It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.”
“Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.”
“A Code of Honor-never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.”
“The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.”
“It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win.”
“Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.”
“It wasn't the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough.”