(2688 quotes found)
“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.”
Aeschylus
“He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.”
Publilius Syrus
“Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.”
Aristotle
“Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life”
“There are three classes of men - lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, lovers of gain”
Plato
“Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.”
Julius Caesar
“What you want is fame?Then note the price:All claimTo honor you must sacrifice.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.”
Sophocles
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
Alice Walker