Quotes About Honor

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

Sometimes you gotta do things that you don't really want to do. But you don't do them for money.

I grew up in a very simple home, a very simple background, and to be able to do what I'm able to do today, I'm very honored. I don't think I'll ever lose that perspective, and I don't want to.

1Let all that I am praise the LORD.     O LORD my God, how great you are!         You are robed with honor and majesty.        2You are dressed in a robe of light.     You stretch out the starry curtain of the heavens;

He never published any more cruel and anonymous satire either, for he'd finally learned that it could hurt people and lead to embarrassing and potentially dangerous repercussions. Moreover, he avoided even the threat of fighting to uphold his honor. He deplored violence anyway. When someone insulted him or tried to pick a fight, Lincoln just laughed at the man and walked off.

verray, parfit gentil knyght'.

A Prussian officer was expected to share a set of core values, defining his "honor," which took precedence over an order. If he acted in accordance with honor – or, as we might more commonly say today, with integrity – disobedience was legitimate. The right talent and the right behavioral biases were put in place as a first step.

Can you believe that? Americans spitting on the men who have sworn to defend them, on the men who've sworn to obey the orders of the elected, civilian government.

No war can be won without young men dying. Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn't want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.

The worst moment was always taps. It didn't matter if the bugler played it well or poorly, in tune or out; there was something in the mournful ache of the music, and how it spoke of men dying before their time for something they only vaguely understood and being only vaguely appreciated by the people on whose behalf they died, that made it hurt so much.

Too many men want the freedoms, rewards, and privileges of manhood but only the responsibilities of boyhood. They want intimacy with their wives without loving them as God instructed. They want to be respected by their kids without investing time and discipline in them. They want a higher status at work without raising their own level of honor and integrity.

Praying with a lustful heart. "You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures" (James 4:3). God isn't fooled by prayers that are more about how we can fulfill our sinful desires than how we can honor Him and fulfill His purposes.

I was utterly, breathtakingly, and touchingly clueless. That's how folks like me get jobs like mine: honor outweighs common sense.

Fidelity in a sad marriage can fairly be described as an act of faith.

Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.

Action is character. Manhood is action.

We would follow Arthur to the very gates of Hell and beyond if he asked it. And that is the solitary truth.

I tell you the truth, a man may not make himself king; only the blessing of him who holds the kingship can elevate a man to that high place. For sovereignty is a sacred trust that may not be bartered or sold; still less may it be stolen or taken by force.

I raised my spear to heaven. 'For God and Britain!' I cried, and my cry was answered in kind. And then I was racing down the hillside, my cloak rippling out behind me, the wind singing from my dark-glinting spearhead.

Mejor morir en la batalla que vivir como un cobarde.

If I have learned anything in my time among you, it is this: true honor lives not in the skill of weapons or the strength of arms, but in virtue. Skill fades and strength fails; virtue alone remains. Therefore, let us put off all that is false. Let us prefer instead the valor of virtue, and the glory of right.

were we truly men of dedication—with an honor mortgaged to no single individual or group, and compromised by no private obligation or aim, but devoted solely to serving the public good and the national interest?

I think continually of those who were truly great…The names of those who in their lives fought for life,Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun,And left the vivid air signed with their honor.