Quotes About Honor

Honor among thieves is the ancestor of all honor.

To many in the global community, American business - especially our financial institutions - are seen as a bunch of thieves, and as the saying goes, 'There's no honor among thieves.'

There's certain lines you just don't cross. You know the one thing that will get a man out of pocket is when you mess with his children.

The only thing I command is respect.

You can't halfway disrespect me ever in my life and think we are going to be OK later.

It's a great honor to be selected as one of 'Foreign Policy''s Leading Global Thinkers for 2013.

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.

The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.

Third Irishman to wear the green jersey, after 31 years, that's very special for me, and I'm focused on keeping it.

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.

Be loyal to those who are loyal to you. And respect everyone, even your enemies and competition.

There's no glory like those who save their country.

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

Clean fighting solves everything. It ends all bad blood and any ill feelings people have. That's my thoughts.

Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion because I was his slave," he said, dropping unconsciously into the speech of his own people. "I have served Marcus, and it was not slave-service...my stomach will be glad when we start on this hunting trail.

And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.' 'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said.

Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures.

Medal of Honor One Man's Journey from Poverty and Prejudice

We have done with Hope and Honor, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung;And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,And the women come out to cut up what remains,Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brainsAn' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

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