Quotes About Honor

All work is honorable. Always do your best, because someone is watching.

As the old expression goes, if you take the king's coin, you give the king his due.

Princess Lurelia.

Tonight, I ask, on behalf of Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, will you do what no other young women are called to do, and place your lives and honor at the feet of your country?

Let's do right in the eyes of God!

The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.

When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.

A gentleman considers what is right; The vulgar consider what will pay.

A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds.

A young man's duty is to behave well to his parents at home and to his elders abroad.

A man whoTreats his betters as betters,Wears an air of respect,Who into serving father and motherKnows how to put his whole strength,Who in the service of his prince will lay down his life,Who in intercourse with friends is true to his word—others may say of him that he still lacks education, but I for my part should certainly call him an educated man.

Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven.

The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete.

To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

We are nothing but the oath we give.

Every man has it's price, but it's almost never the gold

There are many who say 'I believe this,' but would they hold true to those beliefs if their children were threatened? No. But Genghis would. If you told him you would kill his children, he would tell you to go ahead, but realize that the cost would be infinite, that he would tear down cities and nations and the price would never be paid. He did not lie and his enemies knew it. His word was iron.

the Spartans would want it known how they had died. Of all things, they considered the manner of death mattered as much as the manner of life.

I came to these lands because when a man threatens me and I look away, he has taken something important from me. If I fight and die, all he can take is my life. My courage, my dignity remain. Shall I do less for the nation I have made? Shall I allow them less honor than I claim for myself?

I have called those who had no tribe," he went on, "but still had honor and heeded the call of blood to blood. They rode us in trust. And I say to you all, there are no tribes under the sky father. There is only one Mongol nation and it begins this night, in this place.

This is no game of thrones, but real endings and real blood.

Do you gamble, Captain MacNeill?" "Never, sir." "No?" the marquis looked surprised. "Thought you soldiers were all inveterate gamblers." "Only with our lives, sir. Never had anything else I could afford to lose.

As a gentleman- assuming you still have some pretensions in that direction- of honor- again, perhaps presumptuous, but still supposing your passing acquaintance with the concept- it is your duty- I won't even trouble to speculate here, but remain naively hopeful- to protect those under your care.