Quotes About Honor

John Wayne was a consummate gentleman. Bigger than life.

Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me.

The samurais lived with death constantly. They wore a short dagger to take their own life if need be. At any moment they might have to do that, it was a part of their code.

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot.

I realized that being present for loved ones who are dying or aging is one of the greatest honors and gifts in my life. We are quite small in the big scheme of things.

I think the tragic feeling is invoked in us when we are in the presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need be, to secure one thing -- his sense of personal dignity.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

To him who disgraces his family life is no life, and to such a person there is no one a friend, neither while living nor when dead.

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word.

He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life.

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

I gave my life for freedom-This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.

To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.

Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

Honor modesty more than your life.

Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!

A warrior does not beg for his life. ~Izuru Kira

Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.

It has been the privilege and the honor of my life to know you.