Quotes About Honor

Shame is often associated with Asianness and the Confucian system of honor alongside its incomprehensible rites of shame, but that is not the shame I'm talking about. My shame is not cultural but political. It is being painfully aware of the power dynamic that pulls at the levers of social interactions and the cringing indignity of where I am in that order either as the afflicted—or as the afflicter.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

After I am dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood?

Eved hamalek. The servant of the king.

the dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor.

David was at his best in group settings, soldier enough to join in the raucous jests, king enough to make it matter that he remembered some moments of bravery or sacrifice, and praised each man accordingly.

Dentre meus novos deveres, tinha certeza, finalmente nenhum seria indigno de ser narrado à minha mulher. Por fim, eu me encarregaria de um trabalho cujo objetivo era melhorar a vida, em vez de assistir a seu fim.

Want to be free? Course I do. But a soldier ain't free." He thought about May's husband, his shattered arm, his uncertain future. "I respect the men who joined your army, I do. But I've been taking orders all my life, and now I'm giving them.

they knew that what they hoped for from the operation was to safeguard their daughters' chastity, because upon that chastity depended the honor of the girls' fathers and brothers.

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

Obra de tal modo que cada uno de tus actos sea digno de convertirse en un recuerdo

It is always easy to break one's word to oneself.

I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses, and those who do not love it are unworthy of it. If we prefer honour to life, it is because life is blighted by infamy; and if, in the alternative, man sometimes throws away his life, philosophy must remain silent. Oh,

People are ashamed, not of the injustices they do, but of those they receive. And so, in order that the unjust person should be ashamed, there is no other way than to give as good as one gets.

se vogliamo entrare nella via del piacere con viltà, disprezzo e schiavitù loro e delle loro nazioni, o in quella della virtù con onore, gloria e felicità" SN, 1411

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

Those of us who have never been in the military don't understand what it is like to serve in the military.

If your father was just an ordinary father and told everybody he had no son, people would call him a liar. But if your father was famous for all the saints he was making and said he had no son, then he had no son, period.

One of the best kinds of thrill is defining, honoring, and achieving our goals.

The habit of listening and responding to what your body needs – how much, when and for how long whether food, water, rest, sleep or mileage – involves more than anything, willingness. If you are willing to practice – pay attention to signals, honor the signals you receive and train with mindfulness over distraction – then you are well on your way to listening becoming habit.

Listening to your body does not imply a lack of grit but a willingness to honor true physical limits. Kenyan runners have a reputation for listening to their bodies but certainly do not take it easy on themselves; they are among the world's most gifted and accomplished athletes.