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

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

By: Sophocles

This quote means that you should always do everything with honor and honesty no matter what the results can be. For example, if you’re going to take a test, you should study for it and forget about partying. If you go out and party instead, you won’t know what to do for the test and you’ll be tempted to cheat. If you do cheat, you might pass the test, but you didn’t do it in an honorable way. You decide to take the easy way out. It’s better if you decide to study. You have a higher chance of passing the test and you did it in an honest and honorable way. If you were to do that, you would actually learn and it would help you later on for college or your job. If you were to just copy, you wouldn’t learn anything. It doesn’t help you to copy except for getting a good grade but other than that, you don’t know about anything you’re writing.