Quotes About Honor

I can say I've been a loyal husband. Marriage is based on trust.

I can't expect loyalty from the army if I do not give it.

I think that a sense of loyalty is something that a lot of people lack, just period, in life.

I can't believe I'm gonna be immortalized in Madam Tussauds! Dream come true.

With 'Deep Space Nine,' I learned that when you get a script, you should give honor to the writer. On 'Larry Sanders,' even on '24,' you could make up stuff.

Leave no Marine behind.

Well, my father was a marine so you know how that is.

I wanted to set the story straight and really let people know what it's like and what me and my Marines went through.

Married men don't do that. We don't talk about women.

When I started training martial arts, I learned about respect.

Martial arts is about honor and respect.

Get that son of a bitch to jail," he said through his teeth, "before I kill him!" His eyes were testimony enough to the intent of the statement. He'd forgotten law, duty, honor, everything, in the grip of the worst fear he'd ever felt. If she died, he would be lawless. Nothing would matter to him in the world, ever again, except revenge.

I will honor all life —wherever and in whatever form it may dwell—on Earth my home, and in the mansions of the stars.

When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?

Moments came back to him when he had behaved less honorably than he wished. He remembered instances of neglect and ingratitude. He felt the pang of remorse and resolved not to do the same again.

Greenberg cites the example of a planter who was challenged to a duel because he told a fellow planter that he smelled bad. "When the man of honor is told that he smells," Greenberg writes, "he does not draw a bath—he draws his pistol.

No, that was my privilege.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.

No matter how tight your schedule or your clients' time, do your best to have face-to-face meetings. It is much easier to kill a "faceless deal." And above all, act honorably. That is what people remember.

Barnard suddenly realized, with gloomy introspection, that "I had the legal system of the United States to thank for the honor of being the first surgeon in the world to have done a heart transplant.

His weakness was a thirst for glory but none for power.

Three things are required of man—to worship the gods, to do no evil, and to maintain manly behavior.

And someplace, if there is a place where lists are kept, and credit given, I am sure there is a gold star by his name.