Rather fail with honor than ...

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
 Sophocles

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Who sows virtue reaps honor.
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul, to either conquer or perish with honor, is the secret of victory.
 George S. Patton
We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in.
 Steven Pressfield
See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.
 Yagyu Munenori

Quotes from the same author

You win the victory when you yield to friends.
 Sophocles
Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.
 Sophocles
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
 Sophocles
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
 Sophocles
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
 Sophocles