Best battle & honor Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers. You can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will be magnanimous.”

“Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.”

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Author:Homer

“Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.”

Men Enough Wish Design Honor Battle Succeed

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.”

Men Fighting Honor Battle Being True Patriotic Heroic True Man

Author:David McMurtrie Gregg

“For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor.”

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Author:Swami Vivekananda

“It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.”

Truth Lying Pleasure Sea Adventure Honor Battle Standing Window Errors Ships Wander Shore Castles Mist Tempest

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“I think a lot of artists go waving their Grammies around thanking God for their Grammy, but when it comes to a pitch battle in the street for the honor of God, none of them is anywhere to be found.”

Thinking Artist Found Streets Honor Battle Thank God Grammy

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.”

Men Passion Powerful Inspire Honor Battle Longing Constant

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

“No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they're carrying out the missions of their commander in chief. And we honor all the service that they've provided. Our troops have performed brilliantly. The question is for the next president, are we making good judgments about how to keep America safe precisely because sending our military into battle is such an enormous step.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.”

Men Winning Given Sports Honor Battle Gains Masculinity

Book:The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

Source: The idol and the octopus: political writings, on the Kennedy and Johnson administrations

“The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.”

Source: Self-help, with Illustrations of Character and Conduct

“Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor them by rededicating ourselves to the cause for which they gave a last full measure of devotion.”

Lasts Causes Honor Battle Deeds Devotion

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“It brings joy in sorrow, victory in battle, light to darkness, life to the dead. That is the power of the blood-red jewel which men honor with the name "The Philosopher's Stone.”

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Author:Hiromu Arakawa

“All you have the right to ask of life is to choose a battle in this war, make the best you can, and leave the field with honor.”

War Life Is Asks Fields Honor Battle

Book:MILA 18

Source: MILA 18

“she, with her affection and her gaiety, had been largely responsible for him having rediscovered the meaning of life, her love had driven him to the far corners of the Earth, because he needed to be rich enough to buy some land and live in peace with her for the rest of their days. It was his utter confidence in this fragile creature, that had made him fight with honor, because he knew that after a battle he could forget all the horrors of war in her arms, and that, despite all the women he had known, only there in her arms could he close his eyes and sleep like a child.”

“The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.”

Honor Battle Wounds

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland”

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Book:Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel

Source: Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel

“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.”

Men War Found Causes Dying Honor Battle Standing Dignity Killing Defenseless

Author:Michael Scott

“If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”

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Author:John Green

“These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor - and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.”

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