Honor
96 quotes: 33 by Keith Craft, 63 from other voices.
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- A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying.
- An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
- Better a blush in the face than a blot in the heart.
- Capital! What is capital? Is it what a man has? Is it counted by pounds and pence, stocks and shares, by houses and lands? No! capital is not what a man has, but what a man is. Character is capital; honour is capital.
- Dignity consists not in possessing honours, but in deserving them.
- Gain at the expense of reputation should be called loss.
- He who walks straight rarely falls.
- I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected
- I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
- I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
- If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.
- If it stands the test of public scrutiny, do it... if it doesn't stand the test of public scrutiny then don't do it.
- If you're good to people, and fair with them, and demanding of them, they will eventually decide you're on their side.
- In reverence is the chief joy and power of life.
- It is better to be nobly remembered, than nobly born.
- It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
- It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.
- It is not titles that reflect honour on men, but men that reflect honour on titles.
- Keep moving. Let nothing slow you up. Move on with dignity and honor and respectability.Martin Luther King Jr.Commonly attributed
- Make good on all your mistakes, and don't make excuses—apologize. Stand behind everything you do.
- Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.
- No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones.
- One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
- One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
- One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
- Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honour.
- Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
- Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
- Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Reputation, like health, is preserved and increased by the same means by which it is acquired.
- Respect a man, and he will do all the more.
- Some people obtain fame, and others deserve it.
- The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.
- The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
- The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
- The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.
- The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.
- The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.
- The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
- The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.