Quotes About Honor

Some things are worth spilling blood for.

But I would have the memory be worthy of the man.

I am no coward". My voice rose, and my skin went hoy. "Your father thinks you are" His words were deliberate, as if he were savoring them. "I heard him tell my father so." "He did not" But I knew he had.

In my experience, John D. MacDonald, the man, was as kind and thoughtful as his fiction would lead you to believe that he must be. That a writer's work accurately reflects his soul is a rarer thing than you might imagine, but in his case, the reflection is clear and true. For that reason, it has been a special honor, in fact a grace, to be asked to write this introduction.

Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts.

I daresay we've heard a bit about original sin, but not nearly enough about original glory, which comes before sin and is deeper to our nature. We were crowned with glory and honor. Why does a woman long to be beautiful? Why does a man hope to be found brave? Because we remember, if only faintly, that we were once more than we are now.

Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less true, but truer, to their own wives.

Let Us Be Grateful Today we give our thanks most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers - for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.

Iubesc cinstea, È™i libertatea, È™i generozitatea. Iubesc capacitatea de a face ceva, de a crea. Îmi place s? m? implic din plin. Iubesc tot ce nu este static È™i îi ur?sc pe toÈ›i cei care se mulÈ›umesc s? stea de o parte È™i s? ptiveasc?, s? plagieze, pe cei a c?ror inim? a murit înaintea trupului.

Men, we don't deserve respect. Yet. Respect is out there on the floor, just waiting for us to go get it.

If Kenny Taft knew something, he took it to his grave.

Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.' That's the perfect description of Tessa's family.

Humo de hidalguía, la cabeza vana y la bolsa vacía».

Turning to Darnley, he said, "Sir, take the queen your sovereign and wife to you.

They died honorably rather than like rats in a trap.

three white fleurs-de-lis on an azure background, set with three rubies and an emerald.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

My father was not a brave or an honorable man; but he had once tried to be brave and honorable. He had been afraid, but he had dared—in his fashion—to pray for Owen Meany; he had done that pretty well.

Lo! I must tell a tale of chivalry;

I tried to end our little duel. I called out pacifying words; I entreated; I finally surrendered. Still Clyde came, my pirate costume so great a success that it had apparently convinced him that we were back in the golden days of romantic old New Orleans when gentlemen decided matters of hot dog honor at twenty paces

I am the avenging sword of taste and decency

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

She's an honor student. She's always saying "Yes Your Honor. No Your Honor."