Quotes About Honor

I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

What I've learned is you treat women right.

Question: Is it Tyron or Tryon Edwards? There seems to be a discrepancy. What is meant by ill-desert or is this a typo?

Il n'est pas sûr, enfin, qu'en voulant donner une sanction sociale à la dignité, Améry ne l'ait pas confondue avec ce qu'on appellerait plutôt l'honneur : celui-ci consiste bien en une forme de reconnaissance accordée par la société en fonction de ses codes ; celle-là, en revanche, l'individu isolé peut aussi l'éprouver.

il ne suffit pas de prendre en soi-même une décision pour acquérir la dignité ; il faut que cette décision soit suivie d'un acte qui en découle, et qui soit perceptible par les autres (même s'ils ne sont pas là pour le percevoir). Telle serait donc notre première définition de la dignité.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.

It is a rare thing to win an argument & the other fellow's respect at the same time.

Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

People respect the money and not the person

To believe God is a Privilege, To doubt God is an insult.

Ei tarvittu kuria, ei isänmaata, ei kunniaa eikä velvollisuudentuntoa. Noita kaikkia mahtavampi käskijä ruoski heitä eteenpäin. Kuolema.

the only thing that grows over time is the glory of those who have lived honourably.

But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

It is the writer's duty to tell the terrible truth, and it is a reader's civic duty to learn this truth. To turn away, to close one's eyes and walk past is to insult the memory of those who have perished.

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.

El perdón es el mayor valor de cualquier guerrero.

God's love for Christ also implies His hatred for Christ's enemies and His zeal to vindicate Christ's honor.

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

There are many forms of service that you can render to your country ... what I want to impress on you is that if death is necessary to accomplish your end in upholding your dignity and that of your country then death should be nothing.

To me, the satisfaction of the service, well done, is more than anything that any amount of money can give. This you might call is the satisfaction you get for your services towards your own people and country ... But most important of all is to leave a name that my posterity may be proud of.

We are born to live a life which is valuable only if we live it unselfishly, not for our own gratification, nor for that of our family - but for our country. Men should not fear death, but dishonor and defeat. There is nothing more beautiful than to live and die for the defense of one's country against a common enemy. There is nothing meaner and more vile than to yield to that enemy without fighting to the last ditch.

He felt oddly that he was being accused of something, but the feeling passed and was replaced with the peculiar honor one feels when trusted with a secret. Strange how honors and burdens are so often confused.