Quotes tagged ‘Honor’

“This is about you not living a lie. Not hiding. This is about you standing up and being who you are. That's honorable. That's brave. That's heroic. And that's who you are, Sully. You're a hero. You fought a war and you were braver than I can ever imagine being. This is just another war. For every ga…”

— Tom Verica, Jenna Bans, Olivia Pope, Kerry Washington, imdb.com

“Holt: Same to you, your honor. [Hangs up the phone.] Jake: Oh, what judge were you talking to? Holt: That was my mother.”

— Daniel J. Goor, Joe Lo Truglio, Michael Schur, Captain Ray Holt, Andre Braugher, imdb.com

“I'll never let anybody hurt you again, you hear me? I swear. I promise you that. Never. I'll fucking kill anybody that even thinks about it.”

— Courtney A. Kemp, Gary Lennon, Tommy Egan, Joseph Sikora, imdb.com

“When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.”

— Harry S Truman, amazon.com

“You can abandon your own body, but never let go of your honor.”

— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com

“I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency. My only regret is that I wasn't born dead or not at all.”

— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu

“My honor is my loyalty.”

— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org

“All honor to the noble women that have devoted earnest lives to the intellectual needs of mankind!”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com

“Act well your part; there all the honour lies.”

— Alexander Pope, gutenberg.org

“Speak only that which will bring you honor.”

— Sri Guru Granth Sahib, amazon.com

“Inside the club, there had to be truth. Our word was our honor. But outside, it was all about deception. Lies were our defense, our default. To survive, you had to master the art of perjury. The lie and the truth had to feel the same. But once you learned that skill, nobody knows the truth in or out…”

— Nichole Beattie, John Teller, Nicholas Guest, imdb.com

“One only honors what one conquers or defends.”

— Joseph Goebbels, en.wikiquote.org

“It is a strong argument for democracy that governments regulated by principles of accountability, respect for public opinion and the supremacy of just laws are more likely than an all-powerful ruler or ruling class, uninhibited by the need to honour the will of the people, to observe the traditional…”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“That is the kind of evil practice which would cause the people to lose their dignity and honor. The people should demonstrate clearly and distinctly their capacity to forgive.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“If a people or a nation can reach their objectives by disciplined and peaceful means, it would be a most honourable and admirable achievement.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, theodoreroosevelt.org

“When we fight, if we hold on to our dignity and honour, even if we lose we will never be defeated, because our soul is intact.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.”

— Millard Fillmore, en.wikiquote.org

“And at this day, the blessedness brought to us by Christ cannot be the subject of our praise, without reminding us, at the same time, of the distinguished honor which God was pleased to bestow on Mary, in making her the mother of his Only Begotten Son.”

— John Calvin, amazon.com

“Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com