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Quotes About Honor

Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.
~ Robert Jordan
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
~ Seneca the Younger
The centuries will burn rich loads With which we groaned, Whose warmth shall lull their dreaming lids, While songs are crooned: But they will not dream of us poor lads, Left in the ground.
~ Wilfred Owen
I did what any American could and should do: serve his country in its time of need.
~ Bob Feller
Any time you're mentioned in the same breath as Tony Esposito, for whatever reason, it's a great honor. He's one of my idols. He's one of the greatest of all time.
~ Curtis Joseph
Time consecrates; and what is gray with age becomes religion.
~ Friedrich Schiller
It's a time to stop, honor and reflect on the abundance, prosperity, people and lives we are blessed with.
~ Sandra Magsamen
My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.
~ Brandon Sanderson
When I get recognized, every time feels like the first time.
~ Monique Coleman
I'm a time officer, sworn to uphold the sanctity of history.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Est Sularus oth Mithas"—"My honor is life.
~ Margaret Weis
Est solarus Oth Mithas
~ Margaret Weis
Est Sularus oth Mithas"—"My honor is life." The code defined honor and was more
~ Margaret Weis
Mithas"—"My honor is life.
~ Margaret Weis
Ma... dirlo così... come potrei. Come si può valutare una cosa simile... il disonore? Non dobbiamo valutare una cosa simile, signora. Deve dirmi che somma le piacerebbe avere.
~ Marguerite Duras
L'or vierge du respect serait trop mou sans un certain alliage de crainte.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
It is my honour to act as your ceiling
~ Marian Keyes
Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.
~ Marian Keyes
For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground. No. even revenge is too great an honor for you. As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone.
~ Marianne Curley
I pray for guidance and strength today, to become the person I long to be and do the things I long to do. I honor the imprint of God upon my soul, and the yearning of my heart to follow the path He lays before me.
~ Marianne Williamson
Love is not honourable, unless it is based on equality.
~ Marie de France
There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.
~ Marilynne Robinson
But I believe also the rewards of obedience are great, because at the root of real honor is always a sense of the sacredness of the person who is the object... When you love someone to the degree you love her, you see her as God sees her, and that is an instruction in the nature of God and humankind and of Being itself.
~ Marilynne Robinson
In the First Epistle of Peter we are told to honor everyone, and I have never been in a situation where I felt this instruction was inappropriate. When we accept dismissive judgements of our community we stop having generous hopes for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.
~ Marilynne Robinson