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Quotes About Honor

We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By
~ Bruce Springsteen
Triple H claimed that the nickname "The Game" was to be given to Owen, and that he took it as a tribute to him after his death.
~ Bryan Alvarez
To do anything in the Lord's name means to do it for his purposes. When we pray in Jesus' name, we are petitioning God to bring glory to Jesus and we are asking for his will to be done in everything so that he will be honored above all.
~ Bryan Chapell
God will honor prayer truly offered in Jesus' name.
~ Bryan Chapell
The church's greatest mistakes occur when the people of God honor what a leader says without examining that instruction in the light of Scripture.
~ Bryan Chapell
True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.
~ Buffalo Bill
There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards.
~ bujold lois mcmaster ii
Is it still a victory if you don't get the credit?
~ bujold lois mcmaster iii
There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
~ bukowski charles ii
A través de todos sus fantasmagóricos tatuajes, yo creía ver las huellas de un corazón sencillo y honrado; y en sus grandes ojos profundos, ferozmente negros y valientes, parecía haber muestras de un espíritu que se atrevería contra mil diablos.
~ Herman Melville
Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him who as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway!
~ Herman Melville
no man who rises to command of a United States naval ship can possibly be a coward. And
~ Herman Wouk
What did they care if the rabbis who found them with the books of haskala, of enlightenment, called them epicureans, atheists, breakers of the wall? These old epithets they began to take as names of honor. Out of their ranks came the minds and spirits that created modern Zionism. The fact that Zionism was cradled against the separatist learning of the old yeshivas colors the state of Israel to this hour.
~ Herman Wouk
Yo creo que el honor es un sentimiento muy vivo, pero también estoy convencido de que las formas ya superadas están llenas de apatía y de que hace falta un cansancio infinito para entregarse a un convencionalismo romántico y muerto del sentimiento. Se tiene que estar desesperado, perdido...
~ Hermann Broch
O senhor realmente está querendo chamar a honra de inércia do sentimento?
~ Hermann Broch
ODYSSÉE, VIII, LES AMOURS D'ARÈS ET D'APHRODITE (479-480) : ''Il n'est d'homme ici-bas qui ne doive aux aèdes l'estime et le respect.
~ Homère
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
~ Homer
My every impulse bends to what is right
~ Homer
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.
~ Homer
Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions...
~ Homer
All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life.
~ Homer
For nothing could be better than when two live in one house, their minds in harmony, husband and wife. Their enemies are jealous, their friends delighted, and they have great honor.
~ Homer
it is the cowards who walk out of the fighting, but if one is to win honor in battle, he must by all means 410  stand his ground strongly, whether he be struck or strike down another.
~ Homer