Quotes About Honor

There is a great difference between one who can feel ashamed before his own soul and one who is only ashamed before his fellow men.

Ich dien – I serve?

We believe that salvation is to be found in wholesome work in a beloved land. Work will provide our people with the bread of tomorrow, and moreover, with the honor of the tomorrow, the freedom of the tomorrow.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country, is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihoodthe virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting but never hit soft

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.

It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone.

Credit should go with the performance of duty, and not with what is very often the accident of glory.

I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.

Of course, really, those that stayed were entitled to precisely as much honor as those that went.

I ended my statement to the colored soldiers by saying: "Now, I shall be very sorry to hurt you, and you don't know whether or not I will keep my word, but my men can tell you that I always do;" whereupon my cow-punchers, hunters, and miners solemnly nodded their heads and commented in chorus, exactly as if in a comic opera, "He always does; he always does!

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.

A politician who really serves his country well, and deserves his country's gratitude, must usually possess some of the hardy virtues which we admire in the soldier who serves his country well in the field. Far

By the way, both the men of my regiment and the friends I had made in the old days in the West were themselves a little puzzled at the interest shown in my making my speech after being shot. This was what they expected, what they accepted as the right thing for a man to do under the circumstances, a thing the non-performance of which would have been discreditable rather than the performance being creditable.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

is truly great who deemeth himself small, and counteth all height of honour as nothing.

He only is truly great, who hath great charity. He is truly great who deemeth himself small, and counteth all height of honour as nothing.