Quotes About Honor

The graveyard is a mass of wreckage. Coffins and corpses lie strewn about. They have been killed once again; but each of them that was flung up saved one of us.

Skromnost i savesnost se nagra?uje samo u romanima. U životu se prvo iskoriste, a onda odgurnu.

But in a situation like Sixth Army's, the German military code demands that when lives are at stake, the officers must take second place to the men. It

Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.

He was a creature of the last turning of the centuries when sleep seemed to come more easily. Things were clear to him. He was loyal, a believer in dignity, honor, and effort.

Stature [was] a powerful lure in this age when pride of place ranked second only to pride of blood.

fair. Washington laid claim to the honor on grounds it was the center of government, New York because it was the center of everything. No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.

The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

The dead do not need to rise. They are a part of the earth now and the earth can never be conquered. For the earth endureth forever. It will outlive all systems of tyranny. Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality.

Too much honor destroys a man quicker than too much of any other fine quality.

I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain.

that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.

Férfit meg szabad ölni. Megátalkodni is szabad. De megsérteni nem.

O Lord, to comport myself as a man tomorrow in the day of battle.

Everything you do to someone you love out of pleasure is the most honorable.

Qué va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do." They

Qua Va," the boy said. "It is what a man must do.

We still went under the system, then, that praise to the face was open disgrace.

Those who have entered it honorably, and no men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain, already have achieved immortality.

That's what life is about, doing as good as you can. When the times comes for them to lay you down in the long black hole, they can say one thing: 'He did as good as he could.' That's the best thing you can say for a man. Horse breaker or yard sweeper, let them say the poor boy did it good as he could.

There is only a good fight and a good death for the one whose life is given to the noble.

Im Osten, Westen und Süden liegen die letzten Ruhestätten jener deutschen Soldaten, die für Heimat und Land den Weg der Pflicht bis zum bitteren Ende beschritten haben. Sie sind eine ständige Mahnung an unsere Zurückgebliebenen und unsere zukünftigen Generationen, dass wir sie nicht im Stich lassen dürfen, wenn es darum geht, Opfer für Deutschland zu bringen.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.