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• Honor: The quality of knowing and doing what is morally right.  Oxford Dictionary
• Honor: High respect; great esteem.  Oxford Dictionary
• Honor: A good character, or a reputation for honesty and fair dealing.  Cambridge Dictionary
• Honor: Honesty, fairness, or integrity in one’s beliefs and actions.  Dictionary.com
• Honor: High respect, as for worth, merit, or rank.   Dictionary.com
• Honor: One whose worth brings respect or fame.  Merriam Webster
• Morality and ethics,  Respect,  Integrity,  Self-respect,  Reputation,  Character,  Self-esteem,  Courage,  Greatness,  Dignity

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Honor is doing what is right …

• Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience. Michel de Montaigne
• Good men don’t become legends,” he said quietly. “Good men don’t need to become legends.” She opened her eyes, looking up at him. “They just do what’s right anyway.” Brandon Sanderson
• Honor is simply the morality of superior men. H. L. Mencken
• Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word. Mercedes Lackey
• Right action,  Morality and ethics,  Integrity

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… even if it is inconvenient and unprofitable …

• A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. Walter Lippmann
• Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows. Proverb
• If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable. Thomas More
• True freedom is where an individual’s thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor – no matter the personal price. Bryant H. McGill

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… and no one will find out

• The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked, and he has not been caught. H. L. Mencken

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Honor is honesty

• Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself. William Shakespeare
• Honesty

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Honor is dignity

• Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. Aristotle
• True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. Philip Massinger
• Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on. James Frey
• Dignity

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Honor is what you know about yourself, reputation what others know about you

• Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor. Friedrich Schiller
• Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. Lois McMaster Bujold
• The post of honor is a private station. Joseph Addison
• Reputation

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Honor is seen by many as an important virtue …

• Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times. Ben Jonson
• 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
• To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue. Walter Scott
• Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Christopher Marlowe
• Who sows virtue reaps honor. Leonardo da Vinci
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… one of the most important qualities you can possess

• Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. James Allen
• You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. Aristotle
• All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Winston Churchill
• 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

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Some maintain honor is dearer than life itself

• Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. Joseph Addison
• For one who has been honored, dishonor is worse than death. Bhagavad Gita
• I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar
• It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! Emiliano Zapata
• When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. John Greenleaf Whittier

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Once honor is lost, it’s very difficult to regain

• A hundred years cannot repair a moment’s loss of honor. Proverb
• He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. Publilius Syrus
• Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return. Nicholas Boileau
• No one ever lost his honor, except he who had it not. Publilius Syrus
• What is left when honor is lost? Publilius Syrus

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Honor lies in giving

• It wasn’t the reward that mattered or the recognition you might harvest. It was your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion — these were the things that counted in a life. When you gave purely, the honor came in the giving, and that was honor enough. Scott O’Grady
• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. Calvin Coolidge
• Giving

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Honor lies in hard work

• Honor lies in honest toil. Grover Cleveland
• Hard work

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Honor lies in being humble

• Humility makes great men twice honorable. Benjamin Franklin
• Humility

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Honor lies in being authentic

• The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Socrates
• Be who you are

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Honor does not lie in killing others

• There’s no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending. Abraham Lincoln
• Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them. David Borenstein
• Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession. Julia Ward Howe
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Some maintain that honor is nothing more than a form of vanity…

• A man’s vanity tells him what is honor, a man’s conscience what is justice. Walter Savage Landor
• Fondly we think we honor merit then, when we but praise ourselves in other men. Alexander Pope
• Vanity,  Arrogance

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… a form of worrying about others’ opinions of you …

• If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well- being are as nothing compared with other people’s opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Worrying what others think

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… something that feeds on the fickleness of opinion

• Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion and is as fickle as her food. Charles Caleb Colton
• Honor is but an empty bubble. John Dryden
• Honor wears different coats to different eyes. Barbara Tuchman
• Approval seeking

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Some prefer to win at all costs

• It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren’t 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 didn’t fight with honor… I fought to win. Orson Scott Card

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Others would rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud

• Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. Sophocles
• Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success. Akhenaton
• Steroids is cheating, and winning without honor is not winning. Curt Schilling

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Success without honor doesn’t taste good

• Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won’t taste good. Joe Paterno
• Success

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Wealth and fame without honor is empty

• To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace. Confucius
• Without money honor is merely a disease. Jean Racine
• Fame,  Wealth

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Ability and talent without honor is a great waste

• Ability without honor is useless. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor. George Bernard Shaw
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Honor your relationships

• Honor your relationships by developing listening skills. Allan Lokos
• When I accept an apology, it means that the part in me that honors our relationship honors the part in you that honors our relationship. John Kador
• Principles for healthy relationships

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Honor people for who they are

• It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is. Hermann Hesse

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Honor the uniqueness of each person

• The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence – to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences. Melba Pattillo Beals
• The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. Amit Ray
• Uniqueness

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Honor the suffering of others through the practice of compassion

• To train in compassion, then, is to know all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are neither separate from nor superior to anyone. Stephen Levine
• Sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor. Rachel Vincent
• Compassion

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Honor today

• Today is a gift I honor by fully living it. Mary Anne Radmacher
• Embrace today

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Honor the present moment

• As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease. Eckhart Tolle
• The foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness. Eckhart Tolle
• The more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering – and free of the egoic mind. Eckhart Tolle
• Live in the present

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Honor yourself

• One of the first principles to honor in your relationship with yourself is to respect and trust your own inner voice. This form of trust is the way of the heart, the epitome of well-being. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you. Golda Poretsky
• Today I will honor, cherish, and love myself. When I get confused about what to do, I just have to remember that I need to be true to myself. I will break free of the hold that others-and their expectations-have on me. Melody Beattie
• You cannot say that you have mastered love until you include yourself in its embrace. If you make everyone in your life happy but yourself, you have missed the point of living and loving. Self- honoring is the beginning of true service. When you practice self-nurturing, others around you will catch the energy and you will create a wave of well- being that far supersedes the illusory benefits of self- sacrifice. Alan Cohen
• You must learn to honor and cherish and love your Self. You must first see your Self as worthy before you can see another as worthy. You must first know your Self to be holy before you can acknowledge holiness in another. Neale Donald Walsch
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Honour your feelings

• Emotions are celebrated and repressed, analyzed and medicated, adored and ignored — but rarely, if ever, are they honored. Karla McLaren
• Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place. Judith Wright
• The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen to your feelings, follow your feelings, honour your feelings. Neale Donald Walsch
• Emotions

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Honor your passion and calling

• Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that’s their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it. Mario Andretti
• Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you. Oprah Winfrey
• If there is any point at all to life, surely it is to live out our dreams, to serve, to follow our bliss, to release the music within us, play it with joy and to share it with others? Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to – and honor – the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our egos throughout our lives? How else can we connect with our essence, the source of our calling? Lance Secretan
• Passion,  Purpose

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Honor your commitments

• Do you honor your commitments? If you have a bunch of broken commitments over the last day/week/month/year/decade, you’re energetically drowning in the weight of that lack of integrity. Brian Johnson
• Honor your commitments with integrity. Les Brown
• Commitment

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Honor your values

• Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them. Colin Powell
• Values,  Principles

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Honour your potential and talents

• The most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it. Donald O. Clifton
• Potential,  Talent

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Honor your intuition

• 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
• Intuition

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Honor your challenges

• Honor your challenges, for those spaces that you label as dark are actually there to bring you more light, to strengthen you, to firm your resolve, and to bring out the best in you. Sanaya Roman
• Adversity,  Challenge

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Honor mistakes by learning from them

• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw
• Learning

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Honor teachers

• Anyone who teaches me deserves my respect, honoring and attention. Sonia Rumzi
• Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave them birth; for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life. Aristotle

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Honor your priorities

• I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention. Cheryl Richardson

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Honor the free thinkers

• We need – and should encourage and honour – not only discoverers of facts hitherto unknown but explorers of ideas and rethinkers of values. Walter Moberly

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Honor the dead

• We should keep the dead before our eyes and honor them as though still living. Confucius

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Honor the worthy fulfilment of duty

• Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that which deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man. Mary Lyon

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Honor not just the action but the way it is performed

• Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it. Akhenaton

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Honor truth

• You should not honor men more than truth. Plato

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Honour all forms of life

• Every form of life is sacred. It is not possible to have an activity that is not sacred…Coming to see everything as sacred and honouring everything is spiritual development. Gary Zukav
• To truly honour life, we must sink our roots into what is holy and embrace the infinite life force while radiating love and light. Micheal Teal

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Honour even your enemies

• Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I’ll sleep more easily by night. George R.R. Martin
• It is a good man who stands up for his friends, but an honorable man who stands up for his enemies. Violet Haberdasher
• Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast. Tacitus

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Honor that has to talk itself up cannot be trusted

• The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Trust

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Who you honor says a lot about you

• Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are, for it shows me what your ideal of manhood is and what kind of man you long to be. Thomas Carlyle

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• A Code of Honor-never approach a friend’s girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she’s really attractive. Bruce J Freidmen
• Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards. Lois McMaster Bujold
• Imagine winning the tour de France and then having to do a lap of honor.
• Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. Mignon McLaughlin
• The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he has not been caught. L. Mencken
• The louder he talked of his honor the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Why are we honoring this man? Have we run out of human beings?   Milton Berle

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