Quotes About Honor

What America needs more than political reform is political courage—candidates and politicians who are not afraid to risk losing the office they hold to accomplish the greater good. The Founders were not concerned about political survival; they worried about being hanged when they signed the Declaration of Independence. Yet they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the cause in which they believed so strongly.

The years pass, and a lifetime seems to go by in an instant. I'm told that the young boy is a grandfather now. He has lived a life that should be an example for everyone who achieves greatness of how to be humble and unselfish and how to treat others. It was a joy to be able to coach him for that season and the next year as well, to get to know him as a person as well as player, and it is a great honor to be asked to reminisce about him now.

What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

Conèixer la pròpia deshonra i sostenir la pròpia glòria; un ésser així és un exemple en el món.

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

an extremely important trip … just for a week, and there's no way I can possibly refuse. I'll be as quick as I can, on my word of honor." He was immediately ejected from her embrace and roundly abused in terms that were severe but just. He spent the night in the study, on the hard divan

After all, what is sin? It is an action through which a person betrays his dignity.

Courage ennobles manhood; cowardice degrades it.

Next to living with honor is to die with honor.

Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.

On my honor, I will do my best To do my duty To God and my country

On my honor, I will do my best To do my duty To God and my country and to obey the Scout law; To help people at all times; To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.

Happiness is inseparably connected with decent, clean behavior.

A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.

It could be that the hope was in the adventure, the honor in the pursuit, the pride in the doing.

A compleat gentleman is a man who tries to do what is right and honorable in any given situation. He seeks harmony with the laws of God, or nature, and of man.

Chivalry is first and foremost the worldview of fighting men.

Words have meaning, and we should respect them.

chivalry demands that a man respect a woman's wishes. Needless to say, this does not mean that a compleat gentleman is his lady's lackey.

Larry ended up being salutatorian of his class at Livingston High.

Loyalty is too often used as a replacement for morality or ethics

The shame of cowardice never leaves.

War is a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead. —ERNEST HEMINGWAY

I told Sergeant Major Plumley that he had unrestricted access to me at any time, on any subject he wished to raise.