Quotes About Honor

Don't be so blinded by your morals you fail to do what's right.

A soldier who serves an emperor has to have a uniform, and this also applies to a soldier who serves the Almighty.

We expected a large gathering, because it is the nature of people to forget a saint while he is alive and give him all honors at his death.

The latter was in praise of the virtuous wife, rarer than a pearl.

It is written that it is better to be burned in a kiln than to shame another," my father said.

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You could leave your gold in a tent with no guard and no one would touch it, but now all that has changed. The law of the jungle rules, the only ideology is greed. Don't let yourself be parted from your weapons, and always travel in pairs or groups, because this is a land of thieves.

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.

En todas las clases sociales, menos las privilegiadas por el dinero, la abnegación y el trabajo se consideran las máximas virtudes femeninas; el espíritu de sacrificio es una cuestión de honor, mientras más sufren por la familia, más orgullosas se sienten. Se acostumbran desde temprano a considerar al compañero como un hijo bobalicón, a quien perdonan graves defectos, desde ebriedad hasta violencia doméstica, porque es hombre.

In all social classes except the most privileged, abnegation and hard work are considered the supreme female virtues; a spirit of sacrifice is a question of honor: the more one suffers for family, the prouder one feels. Women are used to thinking of their mate as a foolish child whose every serious fault, from drunkenness to domestic violence, they forgive . . . because he's a man.

Capitaine Etienne Relais was known to be incorruptible in an ambience in which vice was the norm, honor for sale, and laws made to be broken, and men operated on the assumption that he who did not abuse power did not deserve to have it.

there was only one aristocracy, that of decency, and that this was not inherited or bought with money or titles, but was only gained through good deeds.

but even the most valiant and honorable men sometimes fail their women.

Charles had perished in Italy, like hundreds of other Japanese-Americans in the 442nd Infantry Regiment, which became known as the Purple Heart Battalion due to the extraordinary number of medals for valor it had been awarded. That regiment, made up entirely of nisei, was the most decorated in US military history

Later Tomás de Romeu asked Diego why he had challenged Moncada if he was not prepared to shoot him. Diego replied that he had never intended to carry a death on his conscience; all he had wanted was to humiliate him.

En todas las clases sociales, menos las privilegiadas por el dinero, la abnegación y el trabajo se consideran las máximas virtudes femeninas; el espíritu de sacrificio es una cuestión de honor, mientras más sufren por la familia, más orgullosas se sienten.

Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.

I have never once claimed that I have a Combat Action Badge. I have never claimed that I have a Purple Heart. What I have claimed is that I have served in a combat zone.

It makes you feel good, doing the right thing and getting in the end zone.

The fair request ought to be followed by the deed, in silence.

Do well and right, and let the world sink.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.