Quotes About Honor

Or ever the knightly years were gone      With the old world to the grave

Hsh! He is asleep. We will not wake him, for his strength is very great. The kites have come down to see it. The black ants have come up to know it. There is a great assembly in his honor.

By the Bull that bought me I made a promise—a little promise. Only thy coat is lacking before I keep my word.

All Pathans are not faithless—except in horseflesh.

Though I've belted you and flayed you, By the livin' Gawd that made you, You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!

Do you dare imply that this useless sword is worthy of me?- Sesshomaru

it is we who live for the dead and not the dead who live for us.

I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.

You owed him absolute obedience because you were Japanese.

For in Japan the constant goal is honor. It is necessary to command respect. The means one uses to that end are tools one takes up and then lays aside as circumstances dictate.

The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make a big deal about it. They save up all their bent pins and broken sewing needles and once a year they do a whole memorial service for them, chanting and then sticking them into a block of tofu so they will have a nice soft place to rest. Jiko says that everything has a spirit, even if it is old and useless, and we must console and honor the things that have served us well.

Jiko says that everything has a spirit, even if it is old and useless, and we must console and honor the things that have served us well

This would be a feather in its cap.

Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes. Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes.

No, like worldly contempt, worldly honor is a whirlpool, a play of confused forces, an illusory moment in the flux of opinions. It is a sense-deception, as when a swarm of insects at a distance seem to the eye like one body; a sense-deception, as when the noise of the many at a distance seems to the ear like a single voice.

The reward of the good man is to be allowed to worship in truth.

Kinder?" Ash snorted. "Easier, you mean. Wrap it all in King and Country and forget what war really is. It betrays them, it betrays everyone who died.

Repression is a seamless garment; a society which is authoritarian in its social and sexual codes, which crushes its women beneath the intolerable burdens of honour and propriety, breeds repressions of other kinds as well.

Deep bonding is a gift the road alone gives to those who honor it and travel down it with respect.

can honor be expected of a man who is preparing to storm the city of his birth?

Conscience never dies the cricket said There will always be a cricket for those who deserve, who are worthy.

To agree to keep a secret is to assume a burden

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

I consider the Detroit Red Wings one of the greatest franchises in any sport. For a player to come in and play, it's so special to wear the jersey.