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Quotes About Honor

Talking to people who have served was eye-opening and left me with a huge amount of respect for what they do.
~ Joe Alwyn
I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.
~ Flea
Listen I'm not going into a fight with Matt Hughes thinking that this guy is done. There's a reason the guy is going to be a Hall of Famer.
~ Matt Serra
I respect Mark Hughes, and I respect what he has done for me.
~ Dusan Tadic
I'm a human being and I'm a man, so don't disrespect me.
~ August Alsina
War is a fundamental aspect of human existence. It's good to know what war entails and what the human sacrifice is.
~ Tim O'Brien
Each story in 'Paava Kadhaigal' explores human relationships from a perspective that it has never been looked at before - how far would one go in the name of honor.
~ Sudha Kongara
The best part of my life is I've been hired to work for the people of the state of Maine, and I'm very humble and very proud.
~ Paul LePage
I'm humbled by the honor that President Clinton has done me in nominatinq me as Attorney General of the United States, and I'm going to do my very best to deserve his confidence.
~ Janet Reno
To have a role written for you by somebody who is a the top of his game is something that is very humbling.
~ Luke Goss
There's a part of martial arts where we need humility and respect.
~ Eddie Alvarez
noblesse oblige
~ Gillian Flynn
Only a conquerer bothers to honor a fallen foe.
~ Glen Cook
Oh, it's a soldier's life for me. Oh, the adventure and glory! It
~ Glen Cook
My brother is a noble knight
~ Gloria Skurzynski
He was, as soldier and man, all of a piece
~ Gore Vidal
claims to abominate slavery and to regard secession as treason." "He will fight very well, sir," said General Scott, gloomily. "It is a matter of honor." "I see," said Lincoln, who plainly did not
~ Gore Vidal
O, über die weilden, unbiegsamen Männer, die nur immer ihr stieres Auge auf das Gespenst der Ehre heften!
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honor - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
~ Graham Greene
The dead of an army become automatically heroes like the dead of the Church become Martyrs.
~ Graham Greene
Is the colonel seriously telling us,' Granger said, 'that he's had time to count the enemy dead and not his own?
~ Graham Greene
To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour—the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two.
~ Graham Greene
I didn't mean that,' Pyle said. 'When you are in love you want to play the game, that's all.' That's true, I thought, but not as he innocently means it. To be in love is to see yourself as someone else sees you, it is to be in love with the falsified and exalted image of yourself. In love we are incapable of honour - the courageous act is no more than playing a part to an audience of two. Perhaps I was no longer in love but I remembered.
~ Graham Greene
After all, he liked me. That was a claim he could never fail to honour because it astonished him.
~ Graham Greene