Quotes About Honor

A vote is a commitment, a mandate a trust.

On Lee as commander: "He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

He remembered his own code that he had made up when he was about twelve, a code of three points only: 'Never betray a friend. Never betray beauty. Never betray the sword.' By that last he had meant being brave when he was afraid.

I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

Figure a man's only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.

It's an honor to walk in the footsteps of a legend. As host I intend to honor the tradition of The Bob Hope Classic and have a great time blazing a new path.

Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself.

My time in the Army gave me an understanding for what it takes to provide for our national security and what it means to our service members and their families.

Always do the right and be the right, Whatever the circumstances.

Judges don't age time decorates them.

Keep your families close together, and love and honor your children.

I want you to know—and I swear by all that I once held honorable that I tell the truth—that I loved you when we came here together . . . I loved you, Becky, with the whole of my being.

Why do you hate yourself so much? He laughed harshly. You ask me that? he said. You know what I am, Diana. You know that I have nothing of any goodness or worth to offer you. And you don't even know the worst about me. I think I know the best about you, though, she said. You have a strong sense of decency and honor. Otherwise you would not be protecting me more than I am protecting myself.

Always there is something worth saying about glory, about gratitude.

Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it. -from The Swan

Of course! the path to heaven doesn't lie down in flat miles. It's in the imagination with which you perceive this world, and the gestures with which you honor it.

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.

To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm.

Those in the ninja world who break the rules and regulations are called filth, but those who don't care about their companions... are even lower than filth.

Je ne reviens jamais sur une parole donnée, c'est ça pour moi être un ninja !

Let's stop and think for a moment. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity? His honor? His freedom? His ideal? His convictions? The honesty of his feeling? The independence of his thought?