If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
- Topic: Honor
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
