Quotes About Honor

I feel profoundly alone, cut off, unattractive…I feel unloveable. But I respect that unloveable solider—struggling to survive, struggling to be honest, just, honourable. I respect myself.

More than a thousand veterans still remained unaccounted for, and his father, Richard Arthur Finnemore, was one of them.

No more taking the Lord's name in vain or even in earnest.

I believe that for a lucky few, love can grow from what is truly important in life—honor, respect and recognition. Now, those are matters worth pursuing, wouldn't you say?

Soldiers, I am sorry to say, steal everything." He thought for a moment and then added, "Or at least ours do." How

And now, Your Majesty, said Strange, I think it is time we returned to the Castle. You and I, Your Majesty, are a British King and a British magician. Though Great Britain may desert us, we have no right to desert Great Britain. She may have need of us yet.

The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

[The law] is a jealous mistress, and requires a long and constant courtship. It is not to be won by trifling favors, but by lavish homage.

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

There was a line from The Lady in the Lake I could have quoted him: "Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men." When Jake recognized that he had failed to live up to his responsibility to uphold that law, he had resigned. He had had the honor and the courage to step away. Not every man had that in him; I thought probably very few men did.

Look, Paul. I appreciate what you're telling me, but I gave Jake my word. Not to mention the fact, he'd throw my ass in jail if he found out I tried to go around him." "He wouldn't, you know," he said. "Jake's a pussycat." Yeah, just a big old saber-toothed tiger.

There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

I pledged to make this marriage. Now it is a matter of honor." "Honor is a cold bedfellow.

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

Um homem de bem, quando não pode mais honrar os compromissos que assumiu, manda em seu lugar o atestado de óbito.

Nunca hubo caballero que salvase a dama con tanta gallardía y discreción.» Es de Chrétien de Troyes.

quisiera que, viniendo despacio, como antes, desde la cocina, desde el patio, en la noche cítrica, una mano, materna o familiar, es decir, de dedos conocidos, en el viejo sentido, anterior a la explosión, a esta deriva sin dirección y sin bordes, encendiera, por fin, la luz, del cuarto sin lujo, austero, con, apenas, lo necesario para reconocer el honor y la constancia de lo que es, lo que es en su seguir siendo, mesa, jarra, botella, ventana y paraíso.

Un traidor es un traidor... Un botón es siempre un botón —sentenció.

Everyone wanted his relatives to be proud of him, didn't he?