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Quotes About Honor

Father, I do acknowledge and confess That I this honor, I this pomp have brought To Dagon, and advanc'd his praises high among the Heathen round; to God have brought Dishonor, obloquy, and op'd the mouths Of Idolists, and Atheists […]The anguish of my Soul, that suffers not Mine eye to harbor sleep, or thoughts to rest. This only hope relieves me, that the strife With mee hath end.
~ John Milton
That who advances his glory, not their own,   Them he himself to glory will advance.
~ John Milton
De?ersiz bir yetenek olan politika de?ildir, Bir ki?iye ya da ?iire kahramanl?k unvan? veren.
~ John Milton
But God, in His appointed time, will vindicate His honor and glory from the foolish attempts of sinful men who attempt to strip Him of both.
~ John Owen
But enough of the words. We all know there ain't no extra pay, and rations will be catch as catch can. But we still got plenty of medals!
~ John Ringo
Yorkische Marsch.
~ John Ringo
Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death: only little men do that.
~ John Ruskin
If I get killed, put my boots back on me.
~ John Sandford
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
~ John Scalzi
I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.
~ John Scalzi
I will, and this is a promise, kick your ass." "Have you ever kicked anyone's ass?" Hirsch asked. "Ever? You were always kind of a girly-girl." Lowen slugged Hirsch in the arm. "I've been saving my kick-assery up for a special occasion," she said. "This could be it. You should feel honored.
~ John Scalzi
You are What you do When it counts - The Masao
~ John Steakley
If he considered God at all, he thought of Him as an old and honored general, retired and gray, living among remembered battles and putting wreaths on the graves of his lieutenants several times a year.
~ John Steinbeck
Parents took honor from a daughter who was a teacher.
~ John Steinbeck
Virtue is venerable as nothing else in this world is.
~ John Steinbeck
A knight without mercy is without honor.
~ John Steinbeck
a man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether he is doing right or wrong.
~ John Steinbeck
Come back with your shield or on it.
~ John Steinbeck
Sir Lyonel knew that this sleeping knight would charge to his known defeat with neither hesitation nor despair and finally would accept his death with courtesy and grace as though it were a prize. And suddenly Sir Lyonel knew why Lancelot would gallop down the centuries, spear in rest, gathering men's hearts on his lance head like tilting rings. He chose his side and it was Lancelot's. He brushed a dungfly from the sleeping face.
~ John Steinbeck
You know that a soldier is the most holy of all humans because he is the most tested—most tested of all. I'll try to tell you. Look now—in all of history men have been taught that killing of men is an evil thing not to be countenanced. Any man.
~ John Steinbeck
You must know that a Chinese must pay all of his debts on or before our New Year's day. He starts every year clean. If he does not, he loses face; but not only that—his family loses face. There are no excuses.
~ John Steinbeck
There's no beholden in a time of dying, said Wilson, and Sairy echoed him, Never no beholden. p. 145
~ John Steinbeck
Thank you for wanting to honor me with the truth, my son. It's not clever but it's more permanent.
~ John Steinbeck
life is a gift and it's meant for the living, and we dishonor our dead by squandering that gift in favor of the destructiveness of our self-pity.
~ John Turner