Quotes About Honor
I've been through the process qualifying for the World Cup, which is an amazing, two-year process. It was an honor to represent the U.S. and to represent the city of Los Angeles and California.
~ Cobi Jones
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If you are a leader, you lead the way, not just in the easy ones, but on the tough ones, too. The key to being a successful combat leader is to earn respect, not because of rank, but because you are a man.
~ Unknown
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Colonel Robert Sink, commanding officer of the 506th PIR, ordered me to prepare a written summary of the battle since no senior officer witnessed the engagement. I purposely avoided the use of the first personal pronoun 'I' because I wanted each soldier to receive credit for what he had done. Later Sink issued a citation to the 1st Platoon that shouldered the principal burden of the fight.
~ Unknown
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It is the belief in duty that captures her spirit best. Yet it is not duty in an arid or formal sense; she enjoyed life, lived it and loved it to the full. 'She loved her country and in turn it loved her.' The
~ Unknown
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Po to i ma szlachta krew, aby j? przelewa?a
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
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J?dru?! Ran twoich niegodnam ca?owa?.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
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What use are these people's wits, who let themselves be led by speechmakers, in crowds, without considering how many fools and thieves they are among, and how few choose the good? The best choose progress toward one thing, a name forever honored by the gods, while others eat their way toward sleep like nameless oxen.
~ Heraclitus
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Until the Civil War there was scarcely a man in public life in New Orleans or Louisiana who had not fought at least one duel; most of them had engaged in several.
~ Unknown
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Brave men don't fight for nothing, like children.' protested Howell's (Major Joe Howell) friend. 'We want to know what we are fighting about. If we are wrong we may apologize.
~ Unknown
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Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
~ Herbert Hoover
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Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned
~ Herbert Hoover
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When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
~ Herbert Hoover
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
~ Herbert Hoover
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My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
~ Herbert Hoover
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My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.
~ Herbert Hoover
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Finally, Calvin's exposition of the Psalter shows that predestination is not so much a distinction between merit and grace as one between man and God, human honor and God's honor.
~ Unknown
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God bless Captain Vere!
~ Herman Melville
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A man who sacrifices himself must be a decent chap.
~ Hermann Broch
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No eyes will raise to heaven. The pure will be thought insane and the impure will be honoured as wise. The madman will be believed brave, and the wicked esteemed as good.
~ Unknown
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Knights who go charging after fire-breathing dragons out of some sense of duty to protect their fair maidens die in vain.
~ Hideyuki Kikuchi
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I never thought honor would feel like betrayal.
~ Hilari Bell
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I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.
~ Hilari Bell
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That's the point of a promise, he thinks. It wouldn't have any value, if you could see what it would cost you when you made it.
~ Hilary Mantel
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My lord, what do you call a whore when she is a knight's daughter?" "Ah," the cardinal says, entering into the problem. "To her face, 'my lady.
~ Hilary Mantel
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