Good words shall gain you honor in the marketplace, but good deeds shall gain you friends among men.   —Lao Tzu

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

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.             —Sophocles

There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.

                     —Abraham Lincoln

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.     —Margaret Fuller

Ability without honor is useless.    —Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.       —Tacitus

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.                                  —Akhenaton

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

                   —Barbara Tuchman

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

–John W. Gardner

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express. —Marya Mannes

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.           —Mark Twain