Quotes About Honor

Honor didn't come from being punished, but accepting a punishment and bearing it restored honor. That was the soul of toh—the willing lowering of oneself in order to recover that which had been lost.

he had been raised to believe it was a man's place to die if necessary before a woman had to.

I did not come to Tarwin's Gap to retreat, Agelmar." "Dai Shan, I'm led to believe you came here to die.

Far Dareis Mai carries my honor.

If you have no gratitude, have you no shame?

Some things just shouldn't be talked about, and I don't care if you will be letting that fool gleeman tell any kind of tale he wants. It isn't right or decent." "I never saw or heard or smelled anything that couldn't be talked about," Tam said

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Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war.

There are fights that you may lose without losing your honor; what makes you lose your honor is not to fight. -Jaques Jaujard

And so virtually every night for four and a half years, writing condolence letters and reading about these mostly young men and women, I wept.

Chris asks, What are you going to stick to? Mah guns, boy, mah guns, I tell him. That's the Code of the West.

Every time we resist the slightest temptation, we honor God. Every

who no doubt honored a keen memory as a sign—bogus though it was in and of itself—of intelligence:

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity.

But listen here, there ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity.

There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity […] The human frame just ain't built that way.

It matters what myths we tell ourselves -- which ideals we choose to honor.

Not even hatred can corrode real honor.

Our sacrifice is greater than his, cried Rilla passionately. Our boys give only themselves. We give them.

never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

We are all servants of some sort, and if the fact that we are faithful can be truthfully inscribed on our tombstones, nothing more need be added.

A very good epitaph," commented Anne thoughtfully. "I wouldn't wish a better. We are all servants of some sort, and if the fact that we are faithful can be truthfully inscribed on our tombstones nothing more need be added.

For our tomorrow they gave their today' — theirs is the victory!

Oh, Diana, will we really see our names in print? It makes me thrill to think of it. Your solo was perfectly elegant, Diana. I felt prouder than you did when it was encored. I just said to myself, 'It is my dear bosom friend who is so honored.