Quotes About Honor

regard as nothing place and office, when either is to be attained or held at the sacrifice of honor.

D'Artagnan leapt out of his chair. One hand went to the hilt of his sword, the other to his hip. "You dare to insult moi?" "No," said Billy. "Sorry." "You must forgive D'Artagnan," said Athos. "He takes every smile for an insult.

Will you stand up for us? Will you be our best man? I smile back. Sure. Absolutely. I say it with great gusto even though I know it will be an extremely tough act to pull off. Practically impossible. It's hard for anybody to be the so-called best man when John Ceepak is already standing there. But I'll give it a shot.

Honor your father and your mother that your days may be long upon the land.

Look around you. It's an honor to fight beside you. Today we choose to fight. For the freedom to fight on other days. So we remember what's worth fighting for.

Begging in the Name of Jesus is an insult to His Name. Use His Name as a king, with boldness!

A large part of Sparta's success was due to their observing fundamental principles that included honor, Know Thyself, nothing in excess, Keep the Measure, loyalty, love, perseverance, and selflessness.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Latria (adoration) is the worship and homage that is rightly given only to God. Dulia (veneration, devotion), by contrast, is the recognition and honor rightly evoked by excellence observed in created persons.

People are giving me more respect.

I will never let the vestal fire go out in my innermost recesses': people feel that vestal fire and they feel that its possessor is sacred: they will not harm him. He walks unharmed amongst people reputed savage because they honor what is most good in man.

You see when a man knows he will be old, he is afraid: when he becomes old, he cares for nothing—love does not count, only comfort; honor does not count, only cheating for a niche.

I knew before marriage to Henrietta Collyer that she and I should never have come together, but a young man's sense of honor, so often mistaken, misplaced as medieval chivalry, prevented me from making the break.

A senior chief told me the other day: "You should know that the ac complishments of your soldiers will be written in capital letters on the first page of the immortal book of great deeds of the German soldiers in the year 1942, even when the newspapers report less about them than about the obvious successes of the other fronts." We are thankful for the kind words.

He had learned that sometimes there was no safe path, no decision from which one could emerge unscathed. In those cases, he had been taught to take the path of honor, even if it led to pain or death

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

head. "You will not tell?" She shook her head again. "But how else can we believe you? You mean you are willing to be shot as a spy rather than give his name?" "Would his name

Yes, but that's personal preference and our desire to honor what's ours, Day," Hilde said. "I know," said Day. "And I do. But I want to read everything. When it comes to books and who can put things in them and get things out of them, it's all ours. And all theirs too. So we go in, see what books they have, take a few and replace them with a few of ours." "No

Disappointment is in fact a kind of grief—a reaction to the loss of something you desired. If you honor and gently hold the disappointment inside you, and at the same time keep yourself open to the wanting behind the disappointment, you'll be able to weather your disappointments and keep going. Another

Hélas, ô sacrifice, ô gloire, Ô silence qui va saigner.

I have another duty equally sacred… My duty to myself.

Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: they sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.

God will honor your baptism if you will. God will honor your temple covenants if you will. And if you will, I know as surely as if I had seen it that you will have full salvation, which is eternal life.

Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.