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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return.

Nicolas Boileau

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Humility makes great men twice honorable

Benjamin Franklin

"Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."

William Shakespeare

Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honored love, I rather would entreat thy company To see the wonders of the world abroad Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

William Shakespeare

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned

Herbert Clark Hoover

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep

Carl Jung

Honor your Self. Worship your Self. Meditate on your Self. God dwells within you as you

Swami Muktananda

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart

Alice Walker

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Aristotle

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn

Philip Massinger

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attention and activity lead to mistakes as well as to successes; but a life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing

George Bernard Shaw

Ability without honor is useless.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

Better than honor and glory, and History's iron pen, Was the thought of duty done and the love of his fellow-men.

Richard Watson Gilder

From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

Proverb

Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.

Plato

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

David Hare

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Aeschylus

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

Henry Van Dyke

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

Sir Richard Steele

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Henry Clay

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