1,157 Quotes About Honor

A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from us and so defuse their wrath. The idea that such behavior would be taken by a ruthless and implacable enemy only as a sign of weakness is as foreign to them as the idea of honor itself.

Kaladin stared outward at the blue sky. “I have to know,” he whispered. “Know?”“You asked why I protect Dalinar. I have to know if he really is what he seems, Syl. I have to know if one of them lives up to his reputation. That will tell me-““Tell you? Tell you what?”“If honor is dead, Kaladin whispered. “He is,” Syl said. “But he lives on in men. And in me.

There are things we don't do. From this moment forth, let us all ensure our every action reflects well on us and our ancestors. Let us live to the highest standards, lest we win this war only to find ourselves staring in the mirror at the face of our late enemy.

If I understand this correctly Christ taught here the alarming doctrine that the desire for honor among men made belief impossible.

Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn't melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to.

A man of honor does swiftly that which must be done.

The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory.

As if on cue, a line of silhouettes emerged from behind a desert scrub—shapes that moved like cats. They wandered through the landscape of corpses, touching each with a gentle nudge. They grew closer, and it became clear that Chuluum was leading the other cats on their sorrowful homage, giving the fallen librarians the honor they deserved.

Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?