"Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong."
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"Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar."
"Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park in the passing lane?"
"I don't believe in marriage. It's bloody impractical. 'To love, honor, and obey.' If it weren't, you wouldn't have to sign a contract."
"Ability without honor is useless."
"Who sows virtue reaps honor."
"The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons."
"It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object."
"We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love."
"The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away."
"Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth."
"Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants."
"Act your part with honor."
"Youth loves honor and victory more than money."
"One can aim at honor both as one ought, and more than one ought, and less than one ought. He whose craving for honor is excessive is said to be ambitious, and he who is deficient in this respect unambitious; while he who observes the mean has no peculiar name."
"It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won."
"To care for those who once cared for us is one of the highest honors."
"Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole."
"I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not Honor more."
"It is important that the female develops a reality that honors and nurtures her femininity and has an identity and creativity of her own. It is equally important that the male in the relationship endorses that creativity."