Quotes About Honor

Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong.

Don't just do what is required, do what is respected.

Honourable is right.

Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

Your word is your bond.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.

What?" "I said, Are you dangerous?" I wasn't sure I heard her correctly. "Who? me? No, I'm not dangerous at all." "You promise?" "Sure." "All right, then," she said. "You can get in." And that was how I met the unsinkable, irrepressible, wholly undeniable Kikumi Otsugi, a woman who believed in bad men, but not bad dishonest men. I had given her my word of honor that I would not harm her, and she was satisfied.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

How great, I thought, to honor people while they are still alive.

We can't do much for the people we've lost, but we can remember them and we can read for them: the books they loved, and books we think they might have chosen. Maybe the reading can help us answer the questions they would have asked us if they were still here to ask them. Maybe the reading can help us figure out how to honor their lives and continue their legacies.

What do we owe the dead, our dead? Maybe it's first that we need to remember them.

The Caine Mutiny,

Deeds, not words, are the demonstration and test of character.

If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.

I want to kill this degenerate bastard brother of yours. But I am not selfish, I do not want to deprive you of that honor.

Now if my actions prosper, you shall see Your titles graced with greater estimation; Or at the least we shall no longer be Deprived of deserved reputation.

Shame is pride's cloak.

No wreaths please—especially no hothouse flowers.Some common memento is better,something he prized and is known by:his old clothes—a few books perhaps.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,By all their country's wishes bless'd!