There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.
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Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.
When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.
Ours is a world controlled by the warrior and the sword.
GETTING KILLED BY TARTARUS didn__ seem like much of an honor. As Annabeth stared up at his dark whirlpool face, she decided she__ rather die in some less memorable way__aybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy. Yes, that sounded good.
Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.
Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him!
In a world filled with flaky people, those that honor commitments and do what they say STAND-OUT. Integrity is currency.
I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.
There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.
There__ more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior _ the best warrior _ isn__ cruel or mean. He doesn__ claw an enemy who can__ fight back. Where__ the honor in that?
What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.
You may love, honor, and care for her, but someone else is doing what she needs.
[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.
Damn the wars but bless the soldier.
The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.
You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be no less honest. I believe these deep duties may lie upon your lordship; I believe you may have laid them on your conscience when you took the oaths of the high office which you hold. But for me, who am just a plain man--or scarce a man yet--the plain duties must suffice. I can think but of two things, of a poor soul in the immediate and unjust danger of a shameful death, and of the cries and tears of his wife that still tingle in my head. I cannot see beyond, my lord. It's the way I am made. If the country has to fall, it has to fall. And I pray God, if this is wilful blindness, that He may enlighten me before too late.
We have soul contracts with every person in our lives to live in the vibration of truth.