Quotes About Honor

Just because it's a world of thieves out there don't mean there ain't no rules to it.

When you make a deal you stick to it. Rock-hard rule. You don't renege, you don't sell out. You hold up your end and expect the other party to do the same. If the other party doesn't, you're entitled to deal with every man of it as you see fit in order to set things right. No--you're more than entitled. You're obligated. Or the rule would mean nothing.

Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up as a man and walk home as a man unsupported, and became samurai. And he watched her, despising the need for this courage, yet understanding it, even honoring it.

Love is a christian word. Love is a christian thought, a christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.

A samurai dies with dignity. For what is life to a samurai? Nothing at all. All life is suffering, neh ?

When a man's pride is injured, death is a small price to repay the insult.

But a vassal should never expect his lord to reward his services or even acknowledge them: To serve is duty, duty is samurai, samurai is immortality.

Toranaga eased his kimono and loincloth aside, as did Yabu. Together they urinated and mixed their urine and watched it dew the garden below.

It is not wise to notice another man's woman.

What about bushido? the ghosts of his ancestors had always asked him. What about bushido? he had always asked them back. They had never answered.

By historic custom only the descendants of the sprawling, ancient, semi-divine families of the Minowara, Takashima, and Fujimoto were entitled to the rank of Shogun.

No honor. No cojones. Except to burn innocents in the name of God.

Money means nothing to a real man.

But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. —Ronald Reagan

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When great men blunder, they count their losses in pride and reputation and glory. The underlings count their losses in blood. —Theodore C. Mason, Battleship Sailor (1982)

You've made a wise choice, lad...I won't insult your intelligence with the word 'trust'.

They linger yet,      Avengers of their native land.—Gray

But even the falsest of men pay so much homage to truth as to seem its votaries.

Tis an ancient and sacred tie that binds man to his nation; neither can it be severed without infamy.

No sé que quereís decir con vuestras alusiones a los artes cruentos de la guerra. A otros dejo el honor, si de honor se trata, de tan semejantes ciencias bélicas.

Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on.

If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.