Quotes About Honor

If you want to be proud of yourself, you have got to do things you can be proud of.

An epitaph should speak the truth.

A disciple realizes that it is his Lord's honor that is at stake in his life, not his own honor.

As a saint, my life's spiritual honor and duty is to fulfill my debt to Christ in relation to these lost souls.

I am a debtor to everyone on the face of the earth because of the gospel of Jesus; I am free only that I may be an absolute bondservant of His." That is the characteristic of a Christian's life once this level of spiritual honor and duty becomes real. Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.

Jesus Christ's honor is at stake in our bodily lives.

Is the Son of God praying in me, bringing honor to the Father, or am I dictating my demands to Him?

Hemos nacido en este tiempo y debemos recorrer el camino hasta el final. No hay otro. Es nuestro deber permanecer sin esperanza de salvación en el puesto ya perdido. Permanecer como aquel soldado romano cuyo esqueleto se ha encontrado delante de una puerta en Pompeya que murió porque al estallar la erupción del Vesubio nadie se acordó de licenciarlo. Eso es grandeza. Eso es tener raza. Ese honroso final es lo único que no se le puede quitar al hombre

All I'm asking forIs a little respect when I come home.

Then he went straightway to the presence-chamber; and he spoke in the speech of men; and he told his lord of that frail wife's dishonor, and said, 'Arise I cast her off, and be strong as thou ever hast been.' But the king, mad with rage, would not hearken; he leaped down from his ivory throne, and drew bis dagger out from his girdle, and thrust it into the heart of Ilderiui. 'So serve I the foes of my angel!' he cried; and Ilderim fell at his feet. 'I forgive,' he said simply,—and died.

It was with bitter hearts and deadly thoughts that we, the remnant of the Six Hundred, rode back, leaving the flower of the Light Brigade dead or dying before those murderous Russian guns; — and it was all done, all over, in five-and-twenty minutes — less than a fast up-wind fox-hunt would have taken at home!

Bravo!" said Curly, as five minutes afterwards we passed out from the great hall door. "You are a brick, De Vigne, and no mistake. How splendidly you pitched into that rascally keeper!" De Vigne laughed. "It was a good bit of fun. Always stand up for your rights, my boy; if you don't, who will? I never was done yet in my life, and never intend to be.

We are ill appreciated, we cynics; on my honor if cynicism be not the highest homage to virtue there is, I should like to know what virtue wants? We sigh over her absence and we glorify her perfections. But Virtue is always a trifle stuck-up, you know, and she is very difficult to please.

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships the poor man everywhere lies low.

Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

You're my queen, and anyone who says different can fuck off.

Re: Committing attention] WHEN I SHOW YOU THAT YOU ARE WORTHY OF MY ATTENTION, I AM ACKNOWLEDGING AND HONORING YOUR WORTH (p.38).

You need to do better," Pan Rosenberg said before I could speak. He pointed upward. "Up there, almost no more Jews live." He did not bother to spare me from the truth the way my parents and others had when I was younger. There was no safety in hiding things anymore. "We are the last of our kind and down here we are alive. You owe it to your parents to go on.

From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember'd; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed that they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Annie is my wife, and she will remain wi' me as my wife, subject only to my rule. I will suffer no man to dishonor her or lay hand upon her so long as I live.

his father had taught him when he was still a boy that men should always show respect for women because women carried inside them the place where life began.

One dwells with God by being faithful to one's nature. One crosses God by trying to be something one is not. Reality-including one's own-is divine, to be not defied but honored.