Quotes About Honor

Thank you." "For?" "Defending my honor. When Adolin does that, someone usually gets stabbed. Your way was pleasanter.

He turned his mount and clopped up onto the bridge, then nodded his thanks to the bridgemen. They were the lowest in the army, and yet the bore the weight of kings.

There is honor in loss

Don't just act because you can; act because it's the right thing to do. If you keep that in mind, you'll be all right.

A man doesn't have to like his duty. He just has to do it.

you don't wallow or mope. You aren't allowed that luxury; guilt is for lesser men. You simply need to do what is expected.

El honor ha muerto

The book was written to embody an ideal. It was given to people who already had momentum in doing what was right. That was my mistake. Before any of this can work, our people need to have a minimum level of honor and dignity.

A good king is one who is trusted by his people—and one who deserves that trust.

The value in something relates to how it is treated

Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do.

The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, "I will love this person (because I need something from them)." Or, "I'll love you if you'll love me back. I'll love you, but only if you will be the way I want." This isn't the fullness of love. Instead there is attachment—there is clinging and fear. True love allows, honors, and appreciates; attachment grasps, demands, needs, and aims to possess.

The way to fight shame and to honor who we are is by sharing our experience with someone who has earned the right to hear it.

You share with people who've earned the right to hear your story. ...You have to earn the right to hear my story. It's an honor to hold space for me when I'm in shame.

The Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia is another tremendous resource. Their definitions are very helpful when thinking about grief. I think the most important line is "When a person adapts to a loss grief is not over." It doesn't mean that we're sad the rest of our lives, it means that "grief finds a place" in our lives. Imagine a world in which we honor that place in ourselves and others rather than hiding it, ignoring it, or pretending it doesn't exist.

Self-doubt undermines the process of finding our gifts and sharing them with the world. Moreover, if developing and sharing our gifts is how we honor spirit and connect with God, self-doubt is letting our fear undermine our faith.

courage insists that I honor it by choosing my voice over my comfort.

I think the most important line is "When a person adapts to a loss grief is not over." It doesn't mean that we're sad the rest of our lives, it means that "grief finds a place" in our lives. Imagine a world in which we honor that place in ourselves and others rather than hiding it, ignoring it, or pretending it doesn't exist because of fear or shame.

When we are looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles. We need to honor our struggle by sharing it with someone who has earned the right to hear it. When we're looking for compassion, it's about connecting with the right person at the right time about the right issue.

I've spent many an hour with an inner argument about armed conflict, trying to distinguish the act of killing from the act of murder – the one apparently being worthy of honour and praise and the other of punishment and disgrace.

When fierce mercy transforms our lives, the bewildering words of Julian of Norwich, "Sin will be no shame but honor," become luminously clear, as does the baffling observation of the spiritual genius Anthony deMello, "Repentance reaches fullness when you are brought to gratitude for your sins.

Britain and our friends, by allowing Colonel Bolt's records to have a grave question mark against your name, would you let that question mark still remain?" Sheila looked puzzled. She was

Wherever battles are waged there are casualties, and death is a common occurrence. But what is closest to our hearts is the best interest of the people and the suffering of the vast majority, and when we die for the people, it is an honorable death. Nevertheless we should do our best to avoid unnecessary casualties. Mao Zedong, 1944

You have to preserve your dignity. And your place in line . Otherwise they walk all over you. - Wallanders' father