Quotes About Honor

Where there is a brave man in the thickest of the fight there is the post of honor.

No one provokes me with impunity (nemo me impune lacessit)

I would often be a coward but for the shame of it.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man ... courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Wealth lost-something lost Honor lost-much lost Courage lost-all lost.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

And make death proud to take us.

The way of the Samurai is found in death.

For the sake of historical truth I must verify that only the Greeks, of all the adversaries who confronted us, fought with bold courage and highest disregard of death.

Of my death, tell them i have done my duty

An Englishman fears contempt more than death.

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

Death deserves dignity.

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

Speak me fair in death.

Contrary to popular belief, love is actually a reflection of how much we 'honor' another person—for at its core genuine love is a decision, not a feeling.

Shame and suffering, as St. Bernard says, are the two ladder-uprights which are set up to heaven, and between those two uprights are the rungs of all virtues fixed, by which one climbs to the joy of heaven… In these two things, in which is all penance, rejoice and be glad, for in return for these, twofold blisses are prepared: in return for shame honour; in return for suffering, delight and rest without end.