Quotes About Honor

What would it look like for you to approach tomorrow with a sense of honor and privilege, believing that you have work to do in the world, that it matters, that it's needed, that you have a path and you're working your craft?

MR. CALHOUN.   Never, never. MR. WEBSTER.   What he means he is very apt to say. MR. CALHOUN.   Always, always. MR. WEBSTER.   And I honor him for it.

My old man says when it's time to be counted, the important thing is to be man enough to stand up.

To the everlasting glory of the Infantry—

There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown children, can never be anything else. Jill Boardman encountered her personal challenge - and accepted it - at 3:47.

to the everlasting glory of the infantry, shines the name, shines the name of Rodger Young!

The very idea that the Chief would let anybody expose himself to danger in his place is-well, I ought to slap your face; that's what I ought to do!

Oh, I'm not offended. But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stinkin' proud to use the title. I won't touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees. Call me Jubal.

A public employee, having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect.

All symbols were in Smith's vocabulary but he had trouble believing that he had heard rightly. He knew that he was food, but he did not "feel like" food. Nor had he any warning that he might be selected for such honor

I hadn't been surprised when he kicked over his career to stand up for what he felt was right. Real officers did that.

That was Heinlein in a nutshell: the responsible human being, the competent human being, the human being who knows how to die gallantly when faced with the Birkenhead drill. Not because it's heroic, but because

Good!" the creature echoed. "Doctor Nelson will be along in a minute. Feel like breakfast?" All symbols were in Smith's vocabulary but he had trouble believing that he had heard rightly. He knew that he was food, but he did not "feel like" food. Nor had he any warning that he might be selected for such honor.

Always take an honor guard with you. If you have to go, go down fighting. The size of your guard of honor determines your status in hell.

I knew the deeper meaning of "better death than dishonor"—I knew now why Roman matrons said, "With your shield or on it.

All the more reason to conduct drill as realistically as possible. Jake or I, one of us, is honor bound to stay alive to take care of two women and unborn children; exterminating 'Black-Hat' vermin holds a poor second to that.)

I could not love thee, dear, so much,' Ã¢â'¬Â I said, " Ã¢â'¬Ëœloved I not honor more.' 

Robert B. Parker

He owes us more then that.

You do the best you can, as decently as you can, and you accept the consequences.

It was also he who said of Day, "He is, by nature, incapable of allowing injustice to go unchallenged.

Russ Vaughn, a member of the fabled 101st Airborne Division who had served in Vietnam, published a widely circulated poem that told how the Swifties had won the "last battle of Vietnam." The poem ended with "To our Brothers, forever, on that long black wall / You've been vindicated now, one and all.

That frail and stooped old man is Bud Day. That is Misty 1.

Krulak had done the right thing, but there is often a price to pay for doing the right thing.