Quotes About Honor

Talmud, en una de sus sentencias, que el hombre fuerte es el que domina sus pasiones, el sabio el que aprende de todos con amor, y el honrado, aquel que trata a todos con dignidad, honrando a cada ser humano.

No le doy ningún valor a mi vida, sólo a las vidas ajenas, y pese a ello amo la vida, pero la amo porque espero que me dé alguna ocasión para echarla decorosamente por la borda.

If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.

Contented poverty is an honorable estate.

It was Napoleon who said that one spy in the right place was worth twenty thousand men in the field. He was speaking of his own spy, Schul-meister, a man of amazing courage, skill, and loyalty. But when the time came to reward Schulmeister for his services it was the same Napoleon who refused him the Legion of Honor for which he had been recommended, and the same Napoleon who commented that money was the only suitable reward for

The world that this game [football] is about: skill, heart, honor, joy, and team spirit.

I am here to remind the world that this game is about skills, heart, honor, joy, team spirit.

A reputation, once developed, is as valuable as a fine sword. But don't forget that it has to be a valid reputation. Or the sword's go no edge.

Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves…. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, December 1, 1862

once the actual combat began, chivalry was dead.

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

you have learned from him to honor the will of God in everything God gives and in everything God takes away.

The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue.

There is power in remembrance, recalling, and memorial celebration.

The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by-word through the world. So

One cannot demand "the truth" at any cost, and for this girl to admit in front of the class that her father is a drunkard is to dishonor him. How one tells the truth depends on circumstances.

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

A leader must be ready to send the soldiers under his command to their deaths

Assumir a responsabilidade por esse fracasso é mais difícil no curto prazo, mas fracassar com honra é um dom,9 e permite aproveitar a lição mais importante do método científico: se você não pode fracassar, não pode aprender.

Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

There's one other thing," I said. "Your father was wrong." "My father? Wrong about what?" "You said to me that he once told you that nobody ever thanks a soldier." I paused. "I want to thank you...for what you tried to do and what you did do. Thank you.

That's the thing with promises, princess. They're only as good as the person who makes them. You of all people should understand that.

Those soldiers belonging to the victorious side whose blood has oozed into the ground and whose hearts have ceased beating, have they partaken in the triumph as well as those who are unscarred and busy draining cups of sake to each other's glorious deeds? I rather think they belong instead to the defeated." ... "You mean that those who are killed all belong to the defeated, regardless of which side they were on?

There's more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior — the best warrior — isn't cruel or mean. He doesn't claw an enemy who can't fight back. Where's the honor in that?