Quotes About Honor

I am not going to apologize for my service to the country.

It's just an honor to be part of an apparel brand like Reebok.

When I was approached to become national coach in 2020, I thought it was an honor and a challenge, but I was also aware of the pressure that would come upon me from the moment I was appointed.

I've always had a huge appreciation of the military.

I played because I loved doing it, out of respect and appreciation.

I have never done anything in my life that my mother would not have approved of or been proud of.

I was always interested in the army, I wanted to get into the army.

My dad always had huge respect for the British Army. He always thought it was one of the best. And I think it changed his life - those seven years in that Army.

My dad was career Army.

I spent 24 years in the United States Army.

My dad was a supplier to the army and was not a very well-off person.

Coming from a uniformed background I can relate to the army.

My dad was a very straight arrow, prayed-at-every-meal kind of guy.

Arthur Winslow is one of the great parts.

I will do my best so that I won't feel ashamed of myself in the future.

I need not warn you to be discreet; that is the first virtue of any man who hopes to hold public appointments.

Have you a mind to marry? You hang a stone around your neck; for if you marry for money, what becomes of our exalted notions of honor and so forth? You might as well fly in the face of social conventions at once. Is it nothing to crawl like a serpent before your wife, to lick her mother's feet, to descend to dirty actions that would sicken swine — faugh! — never mind if you at least make your fortune.

At the same time the wretched rooms rose before him, denuded of the poetry of love which beautifies everything; he saw them dirty and faded, regarding them as emblematic of an inner life devoid of honor, idle and vicious. Are not our feelings written, as it were, on the things about us?

But duties, my friend, are not sentiments. To do what we ought is by no means to do what we like. A man who would give his life enthusiastically for a woman must be ready to die coldly for his country.

If either of you gentlemen should forget himself, I will have his blood, or he will have mine.' "'Amen!' called Daddy Gobseck as he put his pistols back in their place; 'but a man must have blood in his veins though before he can risk it, my son, and you have nothing but mud in yours.

decline to descend as low as they can do is the one unpardonable sin. In their feeling towards loftier natures, there is a trace of hate and fear. Too much honour with them implies censure of themselves, a thing forgiven neither to the living nor to the dead.

Great ladies, my child, are great just because they can do their duty on every occasion, and do it nobly." "But what is it about?" asked Clotilde as white as a lily. "Matters too serious to be discussed with you, my dearest," the Duchess replied. "For if they are untrue, your mind would be unnecessarily sullied; and if they are true, you must never know them.

Any one who molests Father Goriot will have henceforward to reckon with me," said Eugene, looking at the old man's neighbor; "he is worth all the rest of us put together.

Journalism may say or suppose anything, and our dignity forbids us even to reply.