Quotes About Honor

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

The Fifth Commandment of the Decalogue demands that one honor one's mother and father. That is not about calling home. It is about this: Their God is your God, their friends are your friends, their debts are your debts, their enemies are your enemies and their fate is your fate.

We Draytons are many things: pirates, witches, rogues...but nobody ever accused us of being ungrateful. A family has to have standards. Even in the Edge.

You would be William, then," she said. He nodded. "Are you here for yourself or for Casshorn?" "For Jack," he said. "I see." She didn't, but that seemed like the right thing to say.

Curran growled deep in his throat. "That's impressive but not really informative, Your Furriness.

I had to honor this request or the Nuans would hate me forever. What could she possibly want? "She wishes to obtain a small predator." "A small predator?" "Yes." Nuan Ara nodded. "The silent, stealthy, vicious killer that prowls by night and mercilessly murders its victims for food and pleasure." Um… What?

Consort," I said. "You honor us." "Fuck you," Dali said. "Fuck your shit. I quit." I laughed and reached for a potato.

The point of having a castle isn't hiding inside its walls; it's being worthy of it.

War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.

Nietzsche spoke for the samurai heart when he wrote, "You are to be proud of your enemy; then, the success of your enemy is your success also." Indeed valor and honor alike required that we should own as enemies in war only such as prove worthy of being friends in peace.

A samurai was essentially a man of action.

Chivalry is itself the poetry of life. —SCHLEGEL, Philosophy of History.

There are, if I may so say, three powerful spirits, which have from time to time, moved on the face of the waters, and given a predominant impulse to the moral sentiments and energies of mankind. These are the spirits of liberty, of religion, and of honor. —HALLAM, Europe in the Middle Ages.

Bushido. The sense of honor which cannot bear being looked down upon as an inferior power,—that was the strongest of motives.

también se viste y se acicala a los muertos, destinados a pudrirse en la tierra. Es un último homenaje, la suprema prueba de amor hacia quien nos fue querido.

The healthiest response to death is to love, honor, and celebrate life.

don't let me hear you say again 'Fuck orders'! You're a corporal who's been assigned a duty, and if your superiors have chosen not to tell you the reason for it, then they have a reason for that too. Good Christ, you're an SS man; behave like one! 'My Honor Is Loyalty.' Those words were supposed to be engraved on your soul!

Sin embargo, los fotógrafos no representaban el auténtico fondo del barril –ese honor recaía sobre los alumnos de comunicación visual y diseño gráfico (¿por qué pagaría alguien tanto dinero para obtener una licenciatura en diseño gráfico?)–, aunque les faltaba bien poquito. Y Jerry no era un tipo de la categoría fondo del barril.

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

Never let your sense of morals keep you from doing what is right.

His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.

Nunca permitas que el sentido de la moral te impida hacer lo que está bien!

frequent phenomenon in history: the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette.

I thought you could feel love for me. I don't say you loved me, but it seemed to me you could. I never had that and, although in ancient literature they talked of it, I didn't know what they meant any more than when men in those same books talked about 'honor' and killed each other for its sake.