Quotes About Honor

Slowly, Gobber stood up. Carefully, he removed his helmet from his head, and placed it very gently on the chest of the dead Goliath.

People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can.

It falls to the lot of even the most glorious flags to be thrown in the mud. Glory, what men call glory, is often thick with mud.

She held her right hand out to Elske, as if they were two merchants closing on a sale, and she bowed her head to Elske, as if they were two swordsmen ending a match, and she looked Elske in the eye, as if they were Wolfer captains, about to risk their lives in battle.

The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.

What man in his senses would say such things to a woman! But men aren't in their senses. What man with a spark of honour would put this ghastly burden of life-responsibility upon a woman, and leave her there, in the void?

Cualquier ser capaz de demostrar valor no puede ser vil.

And voices in me said, if you were a man You would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off. But must I confess how I liked him, How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water-trough And depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless, Into the burning bowels of this earth? Was it cowardice, that I dared not kill him? Was it perversity, that I longed to talk to him? Was it humility, to feel so honoured? I felt so honoured.

We have here a wonderful industrial machine, but a machine quickly rather than carefully built, formed of forcing rather than of growth, involving sinful and unnecessary expense. Better smaller production and more equitable distribution; better fewer miles of railway and more honor, truth, and liberty; better fewer millionaires and more contentment

father's command is a son's law!

not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo, The hundred & fifty are dumb yet at Alamo.

America doesn't know today how proud she ought to be of her Ingersoll .

Te, olvasó: az élet, a dicsÅ'ség, a szerelem lázában égsz, mint én, Legyenek tehát a tiéid e dalok.

Of Honor without Fame/Of Greatness without Splendor/Of Dignity without Pay);

Mi principio inquebrantable es esforzarme en amar la verdad y a Dios por encima de la fama y la gloria —afirmaba—. El suyo es amar la verdad y a Dios, pero amar aún más la fama, la gloria y los honores.

How nearly can what we most despise and hate, approach in outward manner to that which we most venerate!

Rebecca! she who could prefer death to dishonor must have a proud and powerful soul!

T]he pure light of chivalry... distinguishes the noble from the base, the gentle knight from the churl and the savage;... rates our life far, far beneath the pitch of our honour, raises us victorious over pain, toil, and suffering, and teaches us to fear no evil but disgrace.

There goes a true-bred Campbell, said Montrose, as the envoy departed, for they are ever fair and false.

cared for no rogues but their own

I desire no man's regard, Mr. Rashleigh, on such terms as must sink me in my own.

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor.

Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night.

Gather as much virtue as you possibly can.