Quotes About Honor

Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.

It's been a long-time dream to build a temple for my mother when she is alive.

If you knew your job and you did your job, you could not have a better friend in the Corps than General Krulak.

That dog is a Marine!

To every man and woman who wears a uniform, carries a badge, and spends their days and nights working in the criminal justice system to keep the rest of us safe. We are often too quick to criticize and too slow to say thank you.

You know the definition of a hero?" I figured I could make up one on the fly. "Someone who acts without considering his own safety?" "Someone too stupid not to consider his own safety and gets himself and other people killed

Robert Dugoni

When our lives revolve around Christ we find order and harmony. And by implication, whenever something other than Christ—money, power, pleasure, honor—fills the center, the soul falls into disharmony. The well-ordered soul begins to wobble and go off-kilter.

He had never fled from a single foe, and had the thought occurred to him he would have flushed with shame.

They were neither the first nor the last to gild the name of thief.

Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

There is a true glory and a true honor: the glory of duty done--the honor of the integrity of principle.

She was no pushover. That was for sure. She was strong, opinionated, easy to underestimate and misunderstand. She had her own ideas about duty and honor and she kept to her principles even with a gun at her back.

A man had to close his eyes to remain an optimist, and there was no honor in that.

Like an armed warrior, like a plumed knight, James G. Blaine marched down the halls of the American Congress and threw his shining lance full and fair against the brazen foreheads of the defamers of his country and the maligners of his honor.

In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Thanks, anyway,' she said, and he had the feeling that he had disappointed her, that she'd hoped he would make her a promise of the truth, that he would swear upon his honor to do what everyone else had failed to do.

Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.

Profide et Patria

I'm a military kid, both parents in the military - Mom did 12 years, Dad did 21, served in two wars. So discipline is something that was huge.

'Tis sin,Nay, profanation to keep in.