Quotes About Honor

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.

Then, WHAM! We're called up. We cross the vac. We drop. It gets real. All the shit happens at once, in a bloody, grinding flash—and if you live through it, if you survive with enough soul left to even care, you spend the rest of your fucked-up life wondering whether you should have done it different, done it better, or not at all. All for glory and the Corps.

Men of integrity and courage are rare these days.

Do you think I haven't been tempted? Warren shouted. Do you think I haven't had nurses offer me any damn thing I wanted, no strings attached? I'm sure you have. Not only nurses. Wives of friends, teachers at the school, friends of yours! The signs are always up: 'Pussy for rent'! Nobody has any honor anymore. Nobody keeps their promises.

Right meant more than might; that being faithful and good meant more than being rich; that honor superseded all.

IF A MAN is forced to choose between the truth and his father, only a fool chooses the truth.

No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that's in the right and keeps on a comin'. —Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger

English officer came striding across the field quite deliberately. He stopped, saluted with a ramrod spine, and said, "Arthur Clarke. I gather you're the men who brought us those superbombs. I'd like to shake your hands." Karl found him an agreeable fellow, a bit younger and brimming with ideas.

A business suit, Didier once said to me, is nothing but a military uniform, stripped of its honour. And

honour is the art of being humble.

The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. 'The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl

as if she was announcing that she'd just received some distinguished award.

A man has to respect himself bofore he can respect anyone else.

Nations neglect no men more shamefully than the heroes of their wars.

A few weeks after the planes hit the World Trade Center, I applied for a direct commission in the U.S. Army Reserve and ultimately served three active duty tours, including overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. Really, my whole family served three tours.

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody distorted their achievements.

Think about a guy like Bob Mitchum, with his kind of chest gut not defining itself one way or the other. Was there anybody tougher? Lee Marvin was a marine sniper during the Second World War. They had this sense of themselves, and they had this product of being a man in a masculine way.

My great-great-uncle Joseph Lorenz was a Private 1C in the U.S. Army. He was a member of the American Expeditionary Force, Rainbow Division, and died fighting in World War I in France.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

It is important that we honor and remember the sacrifices of countless families in the mobilization to defeat fascism during World War II.

My two grandfathers fought in World War II.

But I'm a daughter of the American revolution, my grandpa fought in World War II, I have lots of family members who were in the military, and it really just was part of growing up for me.