Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.
Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.