Quotes About Honor

La vergüenza es un orgullo disfrazado

Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward.

It is not easy to wash off the shame when it has already been glued to a person.

Proferite queste parole, abbassó la testa, e si mise la corona intorno al collo, quasi come un segno di consacrazione.

Disappointment sharpens the wit; and Renzo, who, in the straightforward path he had hitherto travelled, had not been required to subtilise much, now conceived a plan which would have done honour to a lawyer.

V'ha detto che i doveri annessi al ministero fossero liberi da ogni ostacolo, immuni da ogni pericolo? O v'ha detto forse che dove cominciasse il pericolo, ivi cesserebbe il dovere? O non v'ha espressamente detto il contrario?

The only way to keep a secret is not to repeat it

It's about doing the right thing even if you don't want to do it. About taking responsibility for your actions...it's about letting go when you really, really want to hold on so bad.

No worthy end can ever really be accomplished with unworthy means.

There shall be true glory, where no one shall be praised by mistake or in flattery; true honor, which shall be denied to no one worthy, granted to no one unworthy; nor shall any unworthy one ambitiously seek it, where none but the worthy are permitted to be.

I resented the idea of being talented. I couldn't respect it — in my experience, no one else did. Being called talented at school had only made me a target for resentment. I wanted to work. Work, I could honor.

There will be no jury to stand between the judges who are to pronounce the sentence of the law, and the party who is to receive or suffer it. The awful discretion which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.

I do not steal victory.

The old Jack's yardstick: if it moves, salute it! If it doesn't, paint it!

It's aft the most honour may be, but forrard you finds the better men.

At every word a reputation dies.

Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere,In action faithful, and in honor clear;Who broke no promise, served no private end,Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;The rest is all but leather or prunella.

Some valuing those of their own side or mind, Still make themselves the measure of mankind: Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

I realize that I am expressing a concept that is hard for anyone who is not Sicilian or a mafioso to grasp...A man of honor...must always tell the truth.

Surely until all of us own and honor one another's dead, until we have admitted to our murders and forgiven one another and ourselves for what we have done, there can be no truce, no dignity and no peace.

It was his duty as a card-carrying Knight in Shining Armor to answer the call of a woman in distress. Okay, he didn't actually have a card, but still...

See, I respect boxing because it has given me so much and that's why I will never allow anyone to mistreat the sport of boxing if I can help it.