Quotes About Honor

quoting an August 2005 speech by then president George W. Bush justifying staying the course in Iraq by saying, "We owe [the two thousand soldiers who had already died] something. We will finish the task that they gave their lives for."); Van Putten, Zeelenberg, and Van Dijk, "Who Throws Good Money after Bad?," 2010, 33 ("one of the most important reasons to continue the way in Iraq was to prevent acknowledging that soldiers who fell in battle died in vain").

Today smugglers are vilified and pursued like abortionists were thirty years ago. No one questions the laws and world order that condone their existence. Yet surely, among those who trade in refugees, as among those who once traded in foetuses, there must be some sense of honor.

Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people of the 4th Congressional District for placing their trust in me.

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

When it's time to fight, we're professionals. It's our jobs and careers. Respect must always exist.

Professors of classics - not even a professor of English - professors of classics, they're something sacred; it's almost like being a priest.

To go from hating the way I looked to being a 'Cosmo' centerfold is a profound honor.

When I won the Emmy, the profound sense of gratitude when my name was said I cannot express enough. It was one of the most beautiful moments, hands down, of my life.

The signers of the Declaration of Independence did not pledge their fortunes and sacred honor so the federal government could play 'helicopter parent' to a free people. They saw government as our shared project to secure liberty, doing a few big things and doing them well.

A promise made should be a promise kept.

When you make a promise, keep it.

I promise by my conscience and honor to faithfully fulfill the obligations of the office of president of the government with loyalty to the King, and to keep and enforce the Constitution as the fundamental norm of the State.

When I make a promise about keeping something in confidence, I do.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

When you promise something, you must fulfill it.

Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.

Making a promise and honoring the word given is Hindutva for me.

He was a man, he always performed his promises.

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.

I'm a proper man.

Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.

Character is property. It is the noblest of possessions.