honor Quotes

Youth loves honor and victory more than money.

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

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

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

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

Without virtue it is difficult to bear gracefully the honors of fortune.

True respect comes from earning honors, not just having them.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when honored and puffed up by trifling good fortune, and to be unable to bear even... ...

To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it... ...

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;... ...

Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part... ...