Quotes About Honor

People that don't know Owen Hart or just know his passing... what a great guy above anything - a family man, father, husband - but he had more integrity in his pinky than most people had in their entire body.

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

Respect is not a feeling. It is how we treat another person.

Scripture Reading: Psalm 62:5–8 (NIV1984) Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. My salvation and my honor depend on God; he is my mighty rock, my refuge. Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.

We cannot engage in plans and decisions that honor God until we prepare our hearts and are intentional about keeping them soft and responsive to his leading.

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.

There is no real victory unless it shares the righteousness of that man's heart.

A good death does honor to a whole life.

The soldier talks, guardedly, as some soldiers do,

The war was still being fought, but this desire to go back did not spring from any patriotic ideas about duty, honor, and sacrifice, the myths with which old men send young men off to get killed or maimed.

Listening: You can convey no greater honor than actually hearing what someone has to say.

The ideal of the military hero is clearly echoed in other contexts, and it includes those who routinely risk their health and lives in the line of duty, such as police officers, firefighters, and paramedics.

Respect is what we owe love, what we give.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

He was dead, buried the month before with full military honors with a clove of garlic in his mouth and a stake through his heart. He was well out of it, his last thoughts of revenge upon his Czech assassins still suspended inside his elongated El Greco head like so much frozen gray mud, and there was no more harm he could do anyone.

Where there is nothing sacred, there is nothing.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

To be a hero is honourable; not to be one is not necessarily dishonourable.

The good have no need of an advocate.

Let us bless the Lord God living and true! Let us always render him praise, glory, honor, blessing, and all good things! Amen. Amen. So be it! So be it! St. Francis of Assisi

I needed to learn the wisdom of my body and my heart, not just the wisdom of my mind. […] My body was not just some biological machine designed to carry my consciousness around. I was beginning to understand that, contrary to a culture which called the body sinful, it had intrinsic value, intelligence, and spiritual wisdom to offer me, if I would honor it.

Neither heavenly nor earthly, neither mortal nor immortal have we created thee, so that thou mightest be free according to thy own will and honor, to be thy own creator and builder. To thee alone we gave growth and development depending on they own free will. Thou bearest in thee the germs of a universal life.

To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.