Quotes About Honor

National Guard soldiers, as you know, give up their jobs, their time with their family, make sacrifices to make sure this country is safe.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

There has never been a man mean and at the same time virtuous.

Acts of bravery don't always take place on battlefields. They can take place in your heart, when you have the courage to honor your character, your intellect, your inclinations, and yes, your soul by listening to its clean, clear voice of direction instead of following the muddied messages of a timid world.

To my dear and honored Mother, whose life, no less than her pen, has been devoted to the welfare of others, this little book is affectionately dedicated.

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

Dead people recive more flowers than living ones because regret is stronger tha gratitute

the dead reseave more flowers than the living for regret is stronger than gratitude

Don't underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.

Even if only the people in your writing group read your memoirs or stories or novel, even if you only wrote your story so that one day your children would know what life was like when you were a child and you knew the name of every dog in town — still, to have written your version is an honorable thing to have done.

Do it every day for a while," my father kept saying. "Do it as you would do scales on the piano. Do it by prearrangement with yourself. Do it as a debt of honor. And make a commitment to finishing things.

But Lord Raid and Lord Sifer had an unpleasant habit of reminding Benden Weyr riders of their loyalty at every opportunity. Gratitude is an ill-fitting tunic that can chafe and smell if worn too long. Lord

Las antiguas lealtades nunca se descartaban del todo. Narraway

without honor and kindness there are no rituals in the world that make any difference

That without honor and kindness there are no rituals in the world that make any difference," he replied. "The rest is detail. Do whatever seems beautiful or of comfort to you.

God only knows how many people, what families down the ages, have given their lives for their country. Don't try telling them now that they did it for an unworthy cause.

Es terrible traicionar a tu país. Me cuesta imaginar algo peor, salvo quizá traicionarte a ti mismo. El

We can have ethics and we can have honor and we can have loyalty," he insisted, "and every other key virtue we learned as humans." He was roaring at me under his breath, as the British so often do it, with a veneer of silvery politeness.

I carry the obligation as if she were still with me, as if even now I had to go and spend my hours in her shrine.

We respect you," said Stirling, "more than you deserve.

She was the woman to whom I'd surrendered passion, pride, and honor for a long time before.

He should have known someone like Lucien de Malheur would offer no loyalty, no male solidarity.

How dare you! she shrieked, unaware of the silent young man standing in the shadows, staring at her. Threatening me! You coldhearted bastard, I could have any number of men call you out for the insult. I doubt it, he drawled, feeling wicked enough to goad her. I'm quite deadly in a duel, and most of your paramours know it. You're not worth dying for, my dear, as neither of us is certain you have any honor to save.

Then he told David, in a confiding tone, "I'm scared of banana threads, too." "Banana threads. I see. Well, I can understand that," David said. He couldn't help feeling honored.