Quotes About Honor

All of which is here recorded to the honour of that good Christian pair, representatives of hundreds of other good Christian pairs as conscientious and as useful, who merge the smallness of their work in its greatness, and feel in no danger of losing dignity when they adapt themselves to incomprehensible humbugs.

CHAPTER XLV THE TRUSTY AGENT

En cuanto a ella, era digna pareja en toda la extensión de la palabra. Si no es éste un gran elogio, decidme otro mejor, y lo emplearé.

7You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

Allow this truth to set you free: you don't have to be perfect to experience the Father's love and provision. Do you constantly worry about how your next mistake might make God react toward you? Friend, this is an exhausting way to live. While it's essential you honor Him through obedience, He doesn't love you any less when you mess up.

If an advance decision has complied with any relevant formalities, was appropriately informed at the time it was made, applies to the relevant clinical circumstances, and if there is no indication that the patient might have decided differently were she to be able to make the decision himself as of now, the advance decision will be honoured, and quite right too. But there are many 'buts' here.

Your word can never be as good as your bond, because your memory can never be as trustworthy as your honor.

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

Lucy: What in the world is so great about having a library card? Linus: It's what it stands for! They trust me! They're honoring my desire for knowledge with their trust! In return I'm showing my faith in their library by reading their books… it's a common bond of trust… Lucy: You haven't got a library card… you've got a treaty!

Without respect, love cannot go far or rise high: it is an angel with but one wing.

Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names.

I think there's one higher office than president, and I would call that patriot...

Oaths are but words, and words but wind...

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

...yet I am, and have always been, and shall now always be, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or malexperienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points.

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does one's self.

The man who will so dishonor a woman as to marry her when he bears her no love is, to my mind, not only unworthy of being a missionary of Jesus Christ, but also hardly worthy the name man, surely not gentleman

that right meant more than might; that being faithful and good meant more than being rich; that honor superseded all.

The need to do what's right, and maybe find a little adventure along the way." Poe shifted in his seat. "You remind me of my brother," Leia said softly. "Fly like him, too, apparently." Poe looked at her, surprised and flattered at once.

If you have to ask for respect, you're not gonna get it.

Yes, yes," he answered eagerly, ignoring Jade's sarcasm. "I would be honored to help you, my dear Tracker. I confess 'I am a gentleman and a gamester, for both are the varnish of a complete man.'

Si todos aceptan lavar las ofensas fácilmente, no hay honor. Ciertas cicatrices, es mejor conservarlas. Es como el olvido. Cada muerte injusta que uno olvida, cava la fosa de su propia muerte.

Honor lies in honest toil.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.