Best honor & reputation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that any more, well you know, there you go. Trust was broken.”

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Author:George Tenet

“True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to others, and indeed to all men, at his own cost, pains, or peril. False honour is a pretence to this character, but does things that destroy it: And the abuse of honour is called honour, by those who from that good word borrow credit to act basely, rashly, or foolishly.”

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Author:Thomas Gordon

“Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.”

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Book:God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Source: God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

“George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to restore honor and integrity to the White House. Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest president since Richard M. Nixon.”

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Author:Al Gore

“Trousers and the reputation of not being a thief are similar in the following way: There is no particular honor in having them butonce they are lost, everyone thinks they have the right to insult us.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.”

Source: Can You Forgive Her?

“He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.”

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Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”

Source: Contemplations: Being Several Short Essays Helpful Sermonettes, Epigrams and Orphic Sayings

“Physical courage to a person of honour is easier and less risky than acts that could subject him to embarrassment or humiliation or a diminished career or reputation. These things he must live with. To die for honor is an easier thought to bear.”

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Author:Michael Josephson

“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”

“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”

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Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.”

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Book:A Civil Campaign

Source: A Civil Campaign

“There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.”

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Author:Lois McMaster Bujold

“My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done.”

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Author:William Shakespeare

“How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?”

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Book:Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays

Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays

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