Quotes about Honor
No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.
— Anonymous
Noble fathers have noble children.
— Euripides
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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