Quotes About Honor

Secrets are the cornerstone of civilisation.

I swear it on my name and my power. I swear it by my good left hand. I swear it by the ever-moving moon.

Ah, qué triste resultaba para un hombre cabal verse obligado a seguir caminos tan sinuosos! ¡Qué triste manchar de aquel modo tan sórdido lo más valioso que el hombree posee, su propio honor!

How awful, that an honest man should feel compelled to travel such crooked paths! How awful, that the most precious thing a man possesses, his own honor, should be sullied by such shabby dealings!

Doing the right thing causes us to stand taller, dance more often, and step into life with more confidence.

I thought of something I learned from reading Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz. Crazy Horse believes that he will be victorious in battle, but if he stops to take spoils from the battlefield, he will be defeated. He tattoos lightning bolts on the ears of his horses so the sight of them will remind him of this as he rides. I tried to apply this lesson to the things at hand, careful not to take spoils that were not rightfully mine.

Anything for the truth. No sacrifice is too great.

Steven Pinker has argued that just as a high level of self-control benefits individuals, cultural values that prize self-control are good for a society. Europe, he writes, witnessed a thirtyfold drop in its homicide rate between the medieval and modern periods, and this, he argues, had much to do with the change from a culture of honor to a culture of dignity, which prizes restraint.

But despite this the grace of God had Mary enjoy honor and glory, instead of having to bear the agonies of the flesh. After confessing her faith, Mary started to show.

John Quincy Adams, denying his sons permission to come home for college holidays for under-performance: "I would feel nothing but sorrow and shame at your presence.

She told me she would make it to 115. And she kept her word.

I fight with you because I have a heart problem. Rather than my heart being ruled by God and motivated by God's honor, my heart is ruled by my wants, my needs, and my feelings.

praise is celebrating God's awesome glory, then complaint is antipraise.

Sir John, once he

Whole cities shut down, but the garden just keeps going. Plants don't run on electricity or clock time, and none of nature does. Nature runs on sunlight and rain and the seasons, and I am part of that system. My body is part of nature...This system is much stronger than the other. It isn't some disgrace to be a part of it. It is an honor.

Humankind is innocent, loving, and creative, you dig? It's the bureaucracies that create the evil, that make Honor and Community impossible, and it's the kids who really take it in the groin.

los hombres importantes tienen responsabilidades importantes, y la de no mantener su palabra es una de ellas.

People who filed for divorce have reached a point in their lives where they are no longer able to honor the commitment they made in their wedding vows.

We gain self esteem by doing esteemable acts

After falling on his knees and begging Richard [The Lion-heart] for his life, Isaac's only request is that he should not be placed in iron chains. Richard agrees to this request and orders that Isaac be bound in chains of silver.

retired army captain

Our reputation is created out of earshot.

Shakespeare said only our bad deeds live after us," Victoria, the smart one, said. "The good is oft interred with their bones.

A man with no enemies is a man with no character.