I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.

There are a thousand excuses for failure but never a good reason.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default; by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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.

Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.