Quotes About Honor

The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honor of him and celebrates his life.

I think I was one of those kids that I might not fight you if you stepped on my shoes or stole my lunch money or that kind of stuff. But if you picked on a girl or something like that, that would cause me to rear up a little bit.

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

We should honor - not attack - those who have stood up for equality and other cherished American values.

I care about my legacy that I'm leaving, not only for my fans, but for my wife and my children and my grandchildren. I want them to look back and say, 'He did it right and he stood up for what is right.'

I was brought up in a household where you stood up to be counted.

A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.

I hope to maintain my credibility after I stop playing.

Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

I was gifted at birth with this talent, and I've tried to honor it all my life. And I did - through hell and storms and tsunamis and earthquakes. I've been through too much not to know that giving back is everything.

Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.

Those with less of a sense of service to the nation never understand it when men and women of character step forward to look danger and adversity straight in the eye, refusing to blink, or give ground, even to their own deaths. The protected can't begin to understand the price paid so they and their families can sleep safe and free at night.

I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.

What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.

His objective was to achieve something which the dead, the living, and the children yet unborn would approve of

When I honor, I don't keep track of it. I don't save it for later as a leverage point to get the other person to honor me. I do it because the behavior is consistent with the person I want to be.

Dawes? Dawes, do come back to earth and honour us with your attention for a moment.

Racism was an important moral issue, one that the church needed to confront. Putting a black man in a position of honor and authority was a good thing, and if there was controversy over it, that was not a bad thing thing, either. People needed to work through these things, and not just in the abstract.

Men talk of the Negro problem," said Frederick Douglass in one of his last public speeches, in 1893. "There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough to live up to their own Constitution.

Madge Oberholtzer deserves a plaque of her own.

Sparta, Rome, the knights of Europe, the samurai . . . worshipped strength. Because it is strength that makes all other values possible.

you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

como si eso fuera una especie de medalla de honor que simboliza ética laboral,

Imagination opens things up so that we can grow into maturity—worship and adore, exclaim and honor, follow and trust. Explanation restricts and defines and holds down; imagination expands and lets loose. Explanation keeps our feet on the ground; imagination lifts our heads into the clouds. Explanation puts us in harness; imagination catapults us into mystery. Explanation reduces life to what can be used; imagination enlarges life into what can be adored.