Quotes About Honor

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.

The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.

Toll for the brave—The brave! that are no more;All sunk beneath the wave,Fast by their native shore!

Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

Few, few shall part where many meet, The snow shall be their winding sheet; And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.

Children of heroes have glory for breakfast.

He is the purest figure in history. -- About George Washington

He [the writer] must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you." You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.

Now what happens?" asked the man in black. "We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone." "You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?

That there is a code and standard of mercantile honor which is quite as pure and grand as any military code, is beyond question, but it has never yet been established and defined by long usage and the concurrent support of a large and influential society. The

Great Tamerlane carried the lives of his ancestors into the field with him, in which he used to read before he gave battle, that he might be stirred up not to stain the blood of his family by cowardice or any unworthy behaviour in fight.

The Christian goes for the fool, in the world's account, while he lives; but when death comes, the wise world will then confess they miscalled him, and shall take it to themselves: 'We fools counted his life to be madness, and his end to be without honour. But how is he now numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints? therefore, we have erred from the way of truth,' Wis. 5:4,5.

It was a notable speech of Erasmus, if spoken in ear nest, and his wit were not too quick for his con science[47]—he said he desired wealth and honour no more than a feeble horse doth a heavy cloak-bag. And I think every Christian in his right temper would be of his mind.

He is not a good subject, that is all for what he can get of his prince, but never thinks what he may do for him; nor he the true Christian, whose thoughts dwell more on his own happiness than on the honour of his God.

I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

Honor Is Like the Hawk . . . For my own part, regret nothing. Have lived life, free from compromise . . . and step into the shadow now without complaint. —Rorschach's journal

The principles of Christianity, deeply engraved on the heart, would be infinitely more powerfulthan the false honor of the monarchies...

She kept secrets, her own and those told to her. I guess you'd call it integrity

Grandfather, sacred one, Teach us love, compassion, and honor, That we may heal the earth And heal one another.

We have saved the Alliance and the Horde here this day, and they will never know," Vandel said at last. "They do not need to know. It is enough that they are here.

whoso wilneth hire to wif, for welthe of hire goodes but he be knowe for a cokewold, kut of my nose!