Quotes About Honor

Friendship is a sacred word, a holy thing; it is never developed except between persons of character, and never takes root except through mutual respect; it flourishes not so much by kindnesses as by sincerity. What makes one friend sure of another is the knowledge of his integrity: as guarantees he has his friend's fine nature, his honor, and his constancy.

Xaphen swore an oath never to fail his primarch. Argal Tal did not. He spoke in a voice soft enough to break hearts, "We are heretics, father.

I will tell you how this ends, Jarl Grimnar. It ends with you on your knees, as the first High King of Fenris to bare his throat to a foe's blade. Refuse, and suffer the excommunication of your Chapter and the Exterminatus of your miserable home world

Lieutenant Commander Galloway [behind a chain link fence at a ball field]: Do you know what a code red is? Lieutenant Kaffee, standing on the ball field, looks at her in silence with a blank expression on his face. Galloway: What a pity.

You can't handle the truth!" - Colonel Jessup in A Few Good Men.

You can't handle the truth . You can't handle the sad but historic reality. - Lt.Col Nathan Jessep

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor. - Lt.j.g Daniel A Kaffee

LTJG Kaffee: I want the truth! Col Jessup: You can't handle the truth!

You don't need to wear a patch on your arm to have honor.

If you name things, then you treat them better.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

brief encounter with having less, to honor the people losing more.

Few persons appreciate the steadiness and courage required, when all around is in flight and confusion, for a force to advance steadily to the post of danger in front and meet the exulting enemy. Such men are heroes, and far more worthy of honor than those who fight in the full blaze of successful warfare.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Denn was auch immer auf Erden besteht, besteht durch Ehre und Treue. Wer heute die alte Pflicht verrät, verrät auch morgen die neue.

understood it. What the missionaries brought was the good news of Jesus. Paul writes of this distinction in Romans 2 and offers some interesting insights, noting that God will "give eternal life to those who look for glory, honor, and immortality based on their patient good work" (v. 7 CEB)

nobody every taught you loyalty . . .

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

Adulation is all right if you don't inhale.

You can fight only for something you love. You can love only what you respect. You can respect only what you know.

A nation without honor will sooner or later lose its freedom and independence. This is in accordance with the ruling of higher justice, for a generation of rabble is not entitled to freedom.