Quotes About Honor

Alla fine della giornata, riportare il libro che la biblioteca vuole è il mio dovere e il mio onore, e questo è tutto ciò che conta davvero.

Looke who that is moost vertuous alway,Pryvee and apert, and most entendeth ayTo do the gentil dedes that he kan;Taak hym for the grettest gentil man.

He was of knyghthod and of fredom flour.

He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght.

Scientists have no more status than what other scientists award them through citations, talk invitations, and tenure. "Status" makes a misleadingly concrete-sounding

Where faith costs nothing, faith loses respect, even to those who possess it.

From arrogance grow many branches from which evils come, so many as may cause the loss of soul and body, honor and wealth.

They may be surprised to find how tough a warrior code the chivalry of medieval times was and how much it valued sheer prowess.

Honor the names that you bear, because someday you will have the privilege and the obligation of reporting to [your ancestors] (and your Father in Heaven) what you have done with their name.

Many have belittled Joseph Smith, but those who have will be forgotten in the remains of Mother Earth, and the odor of their infamy will ever be with them, but honor, majesty, and fidelity to God, exemplified by Joseph Smith and attached to his name, will never die.

When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.

By common consent grey hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

it is our sacred duty to make valuable the lives that these people are laying down.

This vanity had increased with years and assumed a very dangerous form. He became indiscreet, and, more disastrous still, he told lies! The very dead—the honored and irreproachable dead—were not even safe in their graves. It was his revenge for unforgotten slights. He who kisses and tells, he who tells even though he has not kissed—what can be said for him, what should be done to him?

Up, men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from Old Virginia.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.

...that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment...

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad.—Anything for the good of one's country—I'm a Roman for that.