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Honor

One may survive distress, but not disgrace. – Scottish Proverb

A hundred years cannot repair a moments loss of honor. – Proverb

Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows. – Proverb

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. – Joseph Addison

The post of honor is a private station. – Joseph Addison

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. – Francis Bacon

For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death. – Bhagavad Gita

A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. – Bible

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. – Nicholas Boileau

Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. – David Borenstein

It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it werent 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 didnt fight with honor… I fought to win. – Orson Scott Card

All honors wounds are self-inflicted. – Andrew Carnegie

A person dishonored is worst than dead. – Miguel de Cervantes

Honor is the reward of virtue. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Honor lies in honest toil. – Grover Cleveland

Our own heart, and not other mens opinion, forms our true honor. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. – Charles Caleb Colton

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. – Calvin Coolidge

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace. – Pierre Corneille