Quotes About Honor

The hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.

Were his lord but worthy, God, how fine a vassal.

But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

O thou fairest among women.

Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her.

A crown of glory that fadeth not away.

From the halls of Montezuma,To the shores of Tripoli,We fight our country's battlesOn the land as on the sea.

Before honor is humility.

Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

Behind freedom their are heroic people ready to defend it.

Fiat justitia ruat coelum [Let justice be done though heaven should fall].

Semper fidelis [Ever faithful].

Disgrace is not to fall but to lie.

The general was sufficiently impressed by the young man to ask him to go back to Italy with him. His back to the wall, Atticus for once in his life refused to do a powerful man's bidding. "No, please, I beg you," he replied. "I left Italy to avoid fighting you alongside those you want to lead me against." Sulla liked his candor and let the matter drop.

Personally, I am always very nervous when I begin to speak. Every time I make a speech I feel I am submitting to judgment, not only about my ability but my character and honor. I am afraid of seeing either to promise more than I can perform, which suggests complete irresponsibility, or to perform less than I can, which suggests bad faith and indifference' (Cicero in Everitt, 58).

Straightforward, direct, and loyal, he was the finest general and admiral of the age.

Personally, I am always very nervous when I begin to speak. Every time I make a speech I feel I am submitting to judgment, not only about my ability but my character and honor. I am afraid of seeming either to promise more than I can perform, which suggests complete irresponsibility, or to perform less than I can, which suggests bad faith and indifference.

one man humbly asked to be given a proper burial

He would accept the legacy, avenge his "father"'s death, and succeed to Caesar's power.

For some years he had been awarded tribunicia sacrosanctitas, or the immunity from physical attack