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Quotes About Honor

If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.
~ Aleksandra Layland
Honor LostAmbulant sunshine piercedthe soot covered glass ~the feeble man wandered byin this ritual morning pass ...
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
Come forth, Paladins!Fulfill your destiny!
~ Andry Chang, Sang Pemburu
I've interrupted a party. Is it in celebration of the peace or in honor of the next war?
~ Winston Graham, Ross Poldark
Damn the wars but bless the soldier.
~ T.L. Moffitt
The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.
~ Philip Caputo, A Rumor Of War
They [442nd Regimental Combat Team] did more than defend America. They helped define America at its best...Rarely has a nation been so well served by a people it has so ill-treated.
~ Err:509
It isn't about being fair and equal. It's about the difference between right and wrong." He stared out at the bloody Elinarch. "And this was wrong.
~ Jim Butcher, Cursor's Fury
We give up the fort when there's not a man left to defend it.
~ General Croghan
Hang yourself brave Crillon. We fought at Arques and you were not there.
~ Henry IV
The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.
~ Friedrich St. Florian
Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.
~ Ridley Scott
Wedded love is founded on esteem.
~ Elijah Fenton
Grace and remembrance be to you both.
~ William Shakespeare
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
~ David Livingstone
The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him.
~ Al-Shafi'i
Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected - that is essential.
~ Anna Gould
Only wisdom and virtue can truly win men's devotion.
~ Liu Bei
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?
~ Socrates
Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
~ Ovid
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
~ Plato
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
~ Philo
The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.
~ Khalil Gibran
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
~ Theodore Roosevelt