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Quotes About Honor

The word "truth" applies to a man's dignity.
~ Simon Soloveychik
The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules, but to win.
~ Vince Lombardi
I only believe in telling the truth and being truthful.
~ Vinnie Tortorich
Tis the glory of a man to vail to truth; as it is the mark of a good nature to be easily entreated.
~ William Penn
Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's and truth's.
~ William Shakespeare
on doit des égards aux vivants, on ne doit aux morts que la vérité.
~ Voltaire
To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.
~ Voltaire
He might fight under my badge, Bet'anya, but you're the only one he would die for.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx
During any experience placed before us, we can stay in alignment with positivity, truth, and goodness by asking the question: What would honor and love do here?
~ Molly Friedenfeld
The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.
~ Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising
And came to her a realization that the largest humiliation for the person was a lie. And the viler the one to whom you lie, the greater is the humiliation.
~ Osyp Nazaruk, Roxelana
A badge (police badge) isnt a hallmark of impunity, its a trademark of justice!
~ T.J. Henricks
When a worrier acts bravery and face death in a battle, rest assured that he/she is knows that the case fought for has its values.
~ Sameh Elsayed
I am Kai Allard-Liao. I am a killer of men.
~ Michael A. Stackpole
The USO called him their fair-haired boy. But it had all been after the war was over
~ Michael Avallone
Viewing an American University art exhibition dedicated in my honor, the last thing I expected was to be accosted by a ninety-year-old Jewish woman whose head barely reached my belt. "I like you, but I don't like everything your country does," she growled. "Excuse me, ma'am," I courteously replied, "but do you like everything your country does?" "No." She wagged her finger in my face. "But your country must be perfect.
~ Michael B. Oren
The violent tension between honor and shame, so central to Middle Eastern cultures and tragically familiar to Israel, was alien to most Americans.
~ Michael B. Oren
All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.
~ Michael Billig
Always true to the code," she said.
~ Michael Chabon
My grandfather went around to the back door. He did not care if his visit endangered the shopkeeper's life, but he wanted it to seem as though he did.
~ Michael Chabon
male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.
~ Michael Chabon
Okay, Harry. We can work cases. But we bend the rules. We don't break them.
~ Michael Connelly
That's my job, to forge the blade. To sharpen it. To use it without mercy or conscience. To be the truth in a place where everybody lies.
~ Michael Connelly
military service was one of them. She knew he had served but he had never
~ Michael Connelly