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Quotes About Honor

Un hombre es honorable en proporción a los riesgos personales que asume por sus opiniones
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
dignity is worth nothing unless you earn it, unless you are willing to pay a price for it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A man is honorable in proportion to the personal risks he takes for his opinion—in other words, the amount of downside he is exposed to.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for your highest potential. Self-realization - the realization of the best within you - is the noblest goal of your existence.
~ Nathaniel Branden
To honor the self—to honor mind, judgment, values, and convictions—is the ultimate act of courage.
~ Nathaniel Branden
I can fulfill the expectations of others and yet fail my own; I can win every honor and yet feel I have accomplished nothing;
~ Nathaniel Branden
The besetting sin of a philanthropist, it appears to me, is apt to be a moral obliquity. His sense of honor ceases to be the sense of other honorable men. At some point of his course—I know not exactly when or where—he is tempted to palter with the right, and can scarcely forbear persuading himself that the importance of his public ends renders it allowable to throw aside his private conscience.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. Could the departed, whoever he may be, return in a week after his decease, he would almost invariably find himself at a higher or lower point than he had formerly occupied, on the scale of public appreciation.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Soon after, Tom, all of twenty years old, became the only soldier in the Civil War to win two Medals of Honor. In
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
A week after the celebration, on June 28, 187 members of Kompani Linge, with Poulsson and Rønneberg in the lead, paraded in uniform before King Haakon. Of their select unit, fifty-one had died during the war. The king paid tribute to the men and their clandestine work.
~ Neal Bascomb
For those who will be gleaned, do we not, at the very least owe them a spectacular end
~ Neal Shusterman
I will be keeper of your secret, Talon told the silent grave of the forgotten inventor. I will be the one who remembers why we forget.
~ Neal Shusterman
Credit is where credit is due and to honner the trixture whose illusions finally become true
~ Neal Shusterman
Respect borne of fear is not the same as respect borne of love. One passes with you to the grave, the other flourishes after your departure.
~ Neal Shusterman
Fear, Ayn. Fear is the beloved father of respect.
~ Neal Shusterman
I expect a full night's sleep from you, followed by a recitation of your poisons in the morning, in order of toxicity. My poison? In spite of his pain and drug-induced haze, Scythe Faraday smiled. Yes, your poisons. Are you my apprentice or not? Citra couldn't help but smile right back at him. Yes, Your Honor, I am.
~ Neal Shusterman
The lettuce elevated to a place of honor.
~ Neal Shusterman
Sorry, Your Honor; I was just thinking. Too much of that can be dangerous.
~ Neal Shusterman
Washington was still a place to be respected, but only in the way that we respect crumbling antiquity.
~ Neal Shusterman
In spite of his pain and drug-induced haze, Scythe Faraday smiled. "Yes, your poisons. Are you my apprentice or not?" Citra couldn't help but smile right back at him. "Yes, Your Honor, I am.
~ Neal Shusterman
Let the dead be dead," agreed Rowan.
~ Neal Shusterman
It's Honorable Scythe Anastasia to you
~ Neal Shusterman
Yo sé que el dolor es la nobleza única
~ Charles Baudelaire