Quotes About Honor

I want to fight the champ," he said. "If you lose, you've lost to the champ and it's no disgrace. If you win, you're the new champ.

The West Point Story

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points: to build courage when courage seems to fail; to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith; to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

They named him James, for Charlie's daddy. In the South, you do not have to love someone a real whole lot to name a child for them. It is just something you do, naming the first boy after his grandfather.

Ryan saw the art and honor in creating smooth new walls and ceilings, enclosing the spaces in which people work and live.

proverb, "A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

To resist the depths of the world's sorrow, the truth of one's heart must be honored.

A person who performs good Karma (deeds) is always held in high esteem.

He who wears the emotional and physical scars of life should do so with honor and integrity.

Don't mess with the Atlas family. - Jake

Money is truthful. If a man speaks of honor, make him pay cash.

Because beyond ensuring that a body has a name, dignity is one of the only things you can actually offer the dead.

At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect - a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.

You have any suggestions, make them. I'm in charge but humble. No need to salute when you see me." Fraser said, "Mind if we snicker every once in a while behind your back?" "Hell, no," I said. "Everyone else does.

When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water (he cups his hands) and if he opens his fingers then, he needn't hope to find himself again. Some men aren't capable of this, but I'd be loathe to think your father one of them.

A man takes an oath only when he wants to commit himself quite exceptionally to the statement, when he wants to make an identity between the truth of it and his own virtue; he offers himself as a guarantee. And it works.

Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

Moque-toi d'une mauvaise réputation. Crains une bonne que tu ne pourrais pas soutenir.

Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.

I love all beauteous things,I seek and adore them;God hath no better praise,And man in his hasty daysIs honored for them.

If you claim a standard, you have to live by it. Win or lose. Else the standard never meant nothing.

"You're wounded!" "Nay," the soldier's prideTouched to the quick, he said:"I'm killed, Sire!" And his chief beside,Smiling the boy fell dead.

We that had loved him so, followed him, honored him,Lived in his mild and magnificent eye,Learned his great language, caught his clear accents,Made him our pattern to live and to die!