Quotes about Honor
Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. And I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.
- George H. W. Bush
Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.
- Cicero
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
- Abraham Lincoln
The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
- Abraham Lincoln
Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.
- Cicero
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
- Abraham Lincoln
You don't have to have special skills to be a hero. You just have to do what's right, despite the cost.
- Susan May Warren
His voice softened, and he looked at her, his beautiful eyes glossy. "Cookie, if I could, I'd start all over with you. Do things right. Honor us both." ...His mouth opened. Closed. He swallowed, and a single tear dripped onto his cheek.
- Susan May Warren
Self-respect is the best means of getting the respect of others.
- Napoleon Hill
If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.
- Charles Swindoll