Quotes About Honor

O ye who lead,Take heed!Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.

Duty were our games.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

Do Right Woman, Do Right Man." I sang it nice and slow

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors, and airmen, who side by side with ours are carrying on their task to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

Let us… brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

You were given the choice between war and dishonour. You chose dishonour, and you will have war.

everything else is stripped away," the Colonel said, "that's all you will have left, your honor, the most important thing in a man's life.

true Shaolin disciples, in accordance with Buddhist precepts — though true Shaolin disciples need not be Buddhists, and many aren't — do not tell lies.

Right is more precious than peace.

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.

The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

I object, your honor! This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.

I hope that my sons will live with honor in a world that is not afraid to use such a word and respect such a concept.

I dress up a certain way because I respect the music.

It appears to me that not only what is done by honourable and virtuous men in the serious transactions of life is worthy of record, but also what they do in their hours of amusement.

Honor appears to me to be an object of great importance, since men submit to every kind of labor, and undergo every sort of danger, with the desire of attaining it.

Agriculture for an honorable and high-minded man, is the best of all occupations and arts by which men procure the means of living.