Quotes About Honor

The gods gave you a brain, boy,' he'd say. 'If you want to honor them, use it.

My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. Pure what, I don't think I want to know.

Ultimately the men who choose against violence, against death, do so because they want to live fully and well, because they want to know love. These are the men who are true heroes, the men whose lives we need to know about, honor, and remember.

We must dare to face the way in which patriarchal thinking blinds everyone so that we cannot see that the emotional lives of boys cannot be fully honored as long as notions of patriarchal masculinity prevail. We cannot teach boys that real men either do not feel or do not express feelings, then expect boys to feel comfortable getting in touch with their feelings.

The End of Manhood, Stoltenberg continually emphasizes that men can honor their own selfhood only through loving justice. He asserts: "Justice between people is perhaps the most important connection

I think we don't deserve to have you guys die for us. No country that lets its leaders lie like that deserves a single soldier to die for it.

No country that lets its leaders lie like that deserves a single soldier to die for it." She

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

You're a bastard, I said. Uhtred, he began, but could find nothing more to say. You're a piece of weasel-shit, I said, you're an earsling. I'm a king, he said, trying to regain his dignity. So you're a royal piece of weasel-shit. An earsling on a throne.

She was as faithful as a morning mist, as hard as a sword-bayonet, and that, he thought, made her a suitable reward for a soldier.

Who do you serve?" Lanferelle asked. "Sir John Cornerwailled," Hook said proudly. Lanferelle was pleased. "Sir John! Ah, there's a man. His mother must have slept with a Frenchman.

I have lived my life, Derfel,' he said at last, 'according to oaths. I know no other way. I resent oaths, and so should all men, for oaths bind us, they hobble our freedom, and who among us doesn't want to be free? But if we abandon oaths then we abandon guidance. We fall into chaos. We just fall. We become no better than beasts.

A parede de escudos. Ela aterroriza. Não há lugar mais terrível que a parede de escudos. É o lugar onde morremos, onde conquistamos e ganhamos reputação. Toquei o martelo de Tor, rezei para Eduardo estar vindo e me preparei para lutar. Na parede de escudos.

If an oath is a mistake then you are still obligated because you are sworn to it.

We live by oaths and we can die by them. To give an oath is to harness a life to a promise, and to break an oath is to tempt the punishment of the gods.

O orgulho faz o homem, impulsiona-o, é a parede de escudos ao redor de sua reputação, e os dinamarqueses entendiam isso. Os homens morrem, diziam eles, mas a reputação não.

Some oaths are made with love, and those we cannot break.

certainly strip him of his petty

Till time ended, Baird suspected, there would be uses for a man and his sword. He

Reputation! It is the one thing that outlives us. Men die, women die, all die, but reputation lives on like the echo of a song, and men crave reputation, as they crave the heavy arm rings that mark a warrior's victories.

Derfel, Derfel – sospirò Merlino. – Sei proprio uguale ad Artù. Pensi che il mondo sia semplice, che il bene sia bene e il male sia male, che l'alto sia alto e il basso sia basso.

Derfel] La mia spada era coperta di sangue, avevo la mano destra appiccicosa e la manica della cotta tutta macchiata, ma nemmeno una goccia di quel sangue era mia.

Houve um tempo em que Sansum se ajoelhava diante de mim e beijava minha espada

To protect the honour of the king's sister, of course