Quotes About Honor

The PCB needs to be clear in its stance on players who have been involved in corruption and tarnishing the image of the country. Because playing for the national team is the highest honor for any athlete.

Everything you do involves sacrifice. My work is to honor my principles, my opponent, and what I believe in. I stand for it, I fight, and I try to get better every day as a human being.

If you don't stand for something, how can anyone respect what you do?

I'm happy every time I stand up in court and say, 'George Brauchler for the people of Colorado...' I take no shame in that; I take pride in that. My mom took pride in being an attorney, too.

Our military personnel sacrifice for us, and we need to stand up for them.

Where I come from, real men stand up and face their opponents with honor and integrity.

I'm going to stand up for the good name of Mississippi, just like I did for Mike Espy's good name.

I've always held myself to a higher standard, whether I was in law enforcement, whether I was in the military.

Elected officials have always been held to a higher standard, as we should be.

I was in the eighth standard and was selected as part of my school to meet Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

As a gambler, I hold myself to an especially high standard of honor, and it disgusts me when people try to cheat at games.

What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

You never want to see people disrespect anything that stands for honor.

Every virtuous man is free.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

We are serving no one man, we are serving our country.

If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.

Famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

There are few men who know how to go to their deaths with dignity, and often they are not those whom one would expect.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.