I don’t believe in honors, it bothers me, honors bother, honors is epaulettes, honors is uniforms. My papa brought me up this way. I can’t stand it, it hurts me.

An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.

To live dishonorably is better than to die gloriously.

Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.

Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

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

Mieux vaut être haï pour ce que l'on est, qu'aimé pour ce que l'on n'est pas.

It’s Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don’t.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

I thought there's something to be said for honor in this world where there doesn't seem to be any honor left. I thought that maybe happiness wasn't really anything more than the knowledge of a life well spent, in spite of whatever immediate discomfort you had to undergo, and that if a life well spent meant compromises and conciliations and reconciliations, and suffering at the hands of the person you love, well then better that than live without honor.

To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent.