Quotes About Honor

Ten years after lending a man from Barbados ten pounds, he wrote to him in 1700, "Sir, I presume the old verity 'If knocking thrice, no one comes, go off ' is not to be understood of creditors in demanding their just debts. The tenth year is now current since I let you ten pounds, merely out of respect to you as a stranger and scholar…. I am come again to knock at your door to enquire if any ingenuity or honor dwell there….

Let the gods speak softly of us

Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor? Kolabati looked into his eyes. "He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.

I did not hesitate to tell them that I not only had the authority of facts, but that it was my conviction that our worst enemy was ourselves, our vanity, our pride and our desire for honor.

We must respect courage wherever we encounter it. -Tom

Why do people betray their brothers and eventually themselves? -The Cripple

It is what one really owns in the end, a name." -Istak

Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.

For a reason or a season,' he said. 'For a year or a lifetime. For a poem or a song. For a victorious battle or a bloody death. For honor. I would stand by you for as long as I might live.

Yeah. You treat him like a son or a soldier, instead of like a brother. He wants you to like him and admire him and love him. Maybe in that order.

You deserve someone who will honor you first and last. And if you choose a man who dishonors you, then you are not the woman I believe you to be.

Your hands are clean. Not stained with blood. You need not carry the blood of your men. Only their memories." Eli

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it

Never break a covenant, whether you make it with a false man or a just man of good conscience. The covenant holds for both, the false and the just alike.' Aye,

They died, but you must live. To honor their memory, you must live.

Entonces descubrí lo que no sabía, que estaba infinitamente cansado, que me importaba un carajo el honor, que me daba lo mismo la impunidad que el castigo, y que la venganza era demasiada carga para mis años.

If sin is not exposed, named, and renounced, then there has been no justice and God is dishonored.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

Granpa always said that if you was spoken to, treat such with proper respect and give full attention to what was being said.

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns it's back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.

François Goyot de Pitavals

She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not things you were despised for treasuring.

But then again, the dead are often easier to praise than the living.

Names were important. You carried your name like a brand. You never lied about it, for fear of angering the god under which you were born.