Quotes About Honor

That is how America gets her art: Contracting firms get the contract and the honor. Starving artists do the work. The government pays for sculpturing thousands of dollars, of which the sculptor gets a hundred or so.

That statesman is indeed happy who can count as his friends the really honest and consistent, the true Patriots, and the men of honorable thought.

Most people to whom a statue has been erected are undeserving.

What I learned in the military is that gossip starts early and it stays forever.

I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those who refrain from it.

Moroccan boys never steal from Moroccans.

I'm not trying to steal anyone's shine.

I want to go to Santos to win. I'm not going there to finish and to 'steal' money. I'm going to play well, so people say: 'Remember Andreas at Santos?'

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

It is an honor to represent the people of India every time I step into the ring.

The young people I work with every day and serve the nation in the armed forces in general, and the Marine Corps in particular, have broken the mold and stepped out as men and women of character who are making their own way in life while protecting ours.

Our job as elected officials is to make sure those who have stepped up to defend our country have the resources they need to do their job.

As a director, you're incredibly proud when an individual steps up to the podium and is acknowledged for their work. But to have an entire company acknowledged, there is just no higher honor ever paid for that company - or for the director, for that matter.

Any man who steps in the ring, I give them respect because we're trying to feed our family and this is how we do it.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

Can storied urn, or animated bustBack to its mansion call the fleeting breath?Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust,Or flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of death?

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune,He had not the method of making a fortune.

Mindful of th' unhonor'd dead.

I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.

It was a great gift which the National Socialist Party had given to the men of the SS, that they could go into battle without physical risk, that they could achieve honor without the contingencies that plagued the whole business of being shot at.

There's no easy way to do this. So do it right: weep, laugh, watch, pray, love, live, give thanks and praise; comfort, mend, honor, and remember.