Quotes About Honor

What good would it have done me in the last hour of my life to know that though our great nation and the United States were in complete ruins, the national honor of the Soviet Union was intact?

A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.

When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.

I thought for a month or so along the lines of what I call Monsieur Beaucaire in modern clothes. By that, I mean a hero who is believed by all to be a villain but who, in the end, is introduced as a man of great honor with a long list of decorations.

The WWE has the largest amount of eyes on it and is the biggest wrestling company in the world. It would be a huge honor for myself to work there, but am I going to be given the same 'Villain' mic time?

Besides Spiderman and Batman, 'The Flash' has, hands down, the best villains. You could do a TV show about The Rogues, and there's enough depth and interest and oddly honor amongst those characters that I think people will watch that show.

I'm a very caring and loving person and I would defend anybody's honor who's been violated.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

When I was growing up in Virginia, the Civil War was presented to me as glorious with dramatic courage and military honor. Later, I realized how death was central to the reality. It was at the core of women's lives. It's what they talked about most.

For centuries, from the dirt roads of Trenton, to the hills of Virginia, to the trenches of Amiens, our armed forces never fought in a war they didn't win.

It was more than enough, but I'm completely satisfied that 'Virtual Self' got nominated for the Grammy. That is a complete victory for the project in my mind and anything else is just bonus.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.