Honor Quotes - Page 10
Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.49, Paulist Press
There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.
Francis I, to his mother. Written in the Letter of safe conduct given to the Viceroy of Naples for the Commander Penalosa the morning after Pavia in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 372-375), 1922.
Eugene Paul Wigner, Andrew Szanton (2013). “The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner”, p.318, Springer
Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.255, Tuttle Publishing
Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.246, Macmillan
Remarks at Amherst College, October 26, 1963.
I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.
James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.277
Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.
"Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.
Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs.
St Augustine, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2003). “Sermons 273-305”, p.21
Neville Goddard (2013). “The Law and Other Essays”, p.7, Simon and Schuster
Muriel Spark (2018). “A Good Comb: The Sayings of Muriel Spark”, p.21, New Directions Publishing
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.111, Vintage
George Washington, Jared Sparks (1848). “pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.155
"Discourse on Voluntary Servitude". Book by Etienne de La Boetie, 1576.
Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.141, Pan Macmillan
Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.
Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.386
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.
Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950
Thucydides, Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (1960). “The History of the Peloponnesian War”, Oxford University Press, USA