Quotes About Honor

It is not our job to defeat those we disagree with. Instead, we are to speak the truth in love with respect, honor, and compassion for the listener

He always said his reputation is all of himself a man can leave behind when he goes back to the elements. Honesty and honor, he said, courage and grace. Those four are what make a man. That's what he taught me, sire.

Sober, for Gods' sake? Fight sober? Jotnar think that's unmanly. That's worse cheating than using far-sight!

La sabiduría es lo primero. ¡Adquiere sabiduría! Por sobre todas las cosas, adquiere discernimiento. Estima a la sabiduría, y ella te exaltará; abrázala, y ella te honrará; te pondrá en la cabeza una hermosa diadema; te obsequiará una bella corona. PROVERBIOS 4:7-9 Un cuidadoso estudio del libro de Proverbios revela que la sabiduría es el arte diligentemente adquirido para vivir con destreza.

Douglas MacArthur said it well: "However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and give his life for his country, is the noblest development of mankind.

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Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats of violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery. They have not thought about it (incredible as this may appear to anyone who reads the papers or listens to the news) and they just don't know what to do. When they look right into the face of depravity or violence they are astonished and confounded.

El soldado entiende que hay veces cuando todos los otros han fallado y entonces tiene que «pagar la cuenta del carnicero» y luchar, sufrir, y morir para arreglar los errores de los políticos y cumplir la «voluntad del pueblo».

What battles have in common is the human: the behavior of men struggling to reconcile their instinct of self-preservation, their sense of honor and the achievement of some aim over which other men are ready to kill them. The study of battle is therefore always a study of fear and usually of courage, usually also of faith and sometimes vision. —Sir Herbert Butterfield Man On His Past

Love and honor thy Mother, for she is the fruit that gives thou life.

As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.

Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.

by and large too many good soldiers get shot, and too few politicians.

I saw you then not only as the symbol of your people and its greatness, but as the voice of the invincible and uncompromising conscience of the human race at a time of danger to the dignity of man, created in the image of God. It was not only the liberties and the honor of your own people that you saved.

the sine qua non of a leader has lain not in his chesslike grasp of issues and the options they portend, not in his style of management, not in his skill at processing information, but in his having the character, the heart, to deal spontaneously, honorably, and candidly with people, perplexities, and principles.

He wants your friendship, and for it he'll pay you in virtues you can use all your life.

Yet I am content. For I have served that dream which I elected to be serving. It may be that no man is royal, and that no god is divine, and that our mothers and our wives have not any part in holiness. Oh, yes, it very well may be that I have lost honor and applause, and that I take destruction, through following after a dream which has in it no truth. Yet my dream was noble; and its nobility contents me.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune.

Never, never, never, never, never give in—except to dictates of honor and good sense.

Rules of the House Character: Do the Right Thing Excellence: Do Your Very Best Respect: Do the Golden Rule

Victoria Westover and Shari Monetta are true patriots

Honor bespeaks worth. Confidence begets trust. Service brings satisfaction. Cooperation proves the quality of leadership.

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.