Quotes About Honor

Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner, who founded Lenny Books together, also happen to have exquisite reading tastes - from obscure small press poetry chapbook to dishy memoirs to literary novels - and so it's a real honor that they've chosen to announce their imprint with my stories.

In the Marine Corps, we're taught to put America above ourselves.

I had a sense of pride for the armed forces from the time I was a child because of my grandfather. He taught me to salute. He told me that every time I see army personnel, I should salute as a mark of respect.

I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and he wrote the highly controversial antiwar book 'War is a Racket.'

If one day I leave Arsenal, I will never sign for another English team. Quite sure.

It's an immense pride for me to be captain of the national team.

When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.

The heart and soul of a Navy SEAL is somebody who's committed to their country and committed to their teammates.

I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.

Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn't leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing.

Aldo is one guy. Barao is another one. We're friends, we're teammates, but it's a fight. Each one will defend his name.

I respected opponents as well as teammates and coaches.

I think any player would say that they want their coaches' respect, they want their teammates' respect, and they want their opponent to respect them.

It's a great honor to be named to the Eastern Conference All-Star team as a starter. It's great to earn respect from your teammates and coaches, but to also get that same respect from other players around the league and then the fans - that is special.

I played in the playoffs with teams that were known for flopping and you do not get respect.

I'm not sure what I'd do with you if you were respectable.

I got the impression that if she had been taken advantage of—and Dimitri found out who was responsible—there were going to be some serious consequences.

An officer who lost an eye or a limb would receive a year's pay and medical expenses; the widows of officers killed in action would also get a year's pay, plus another third for each child. Those who died of their wounds within six months were "deemed slain in battle." No bonuses were announced for enlisted men.

blared "The Stars and Stripes Forever," clearly audible on the hillcrest, where a lieutenant who was immune to the prevailing confidence of his seniors murmured, "'Into the valley of death rode the six hundred.

Men at War: Best War Stories of All Time.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

stirring of epitaphs, "Mort pour la liberté." After viewing a military cemetery near Ste.-Mère-Église, a soldier on August 28 scribbled lines from A. E. Housman in his diary: "The saviors come not home tonight: Themselves they could not save.

Yet here surely was victor's justice, tinged with the sour smell of sanctimony, a reminder that honor and dishonor often traveled in trace across a battlefield, and that even a liberator could come home stained if not befouled.

A priest anointed the body with oil. Slovik would be buried outside a World War I cemetery at Oise-Aisne, near Soissons, in row three of Plot E—a hidden, unsanctified tract reserved for the dishonorable dead. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.