Best honor & enemy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.”

Littles Pay Enemy Nice Honor Cost Losing Advantage Treats Valuable Honored Courtesy Politeness Dividends

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser "triumph."”

Nations Enemy Honor Ancient Triumph Rome Formal Definite Pageant Ancient Rome Ovation

Book:The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)

Source: The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)

“Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?”

Knows Government President Enemy Listening Honor Highest Lists President Nixon

Author:Paul Newman

“How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture "the enemy" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived "the evil enemy," "the Evil One," and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a "good one"--himself!”

Men Facts Desire Evil Enemy Creation He Man Honor Concepts Mark Endure Deeds Noble Evolve Bridges Distinction Despise Reverence Contrast Afterthought Noble Man Pendants

Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche

Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche

“When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.”

War Force Enemy Produce Months Needed Honor Activity Weapons Glory Command Load Units Everlasting Peril December Pacific Personnel Submarines

Author:Chester W. Nimitz

“The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?”

Humans Art Enemy Human Nature Honor Highest Art Is Exertion Sagacity

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.”

Has Beens Self Enemy History Blood Share Honor Determination Jew Self Determination Bondage Pursued Stains Kindred

Book:On call: political essays

Source: On call: political essays

“Our enemies must not deceive themselves-in the 2,000 years of German history known to us, our people have never been more united than today. The Lord of the Universe has treated us so well in the past years that we bow in gratitude to a providence which has allowed us to be members of such a great nation. We thank Him that we also can be entered with honor into the ever-lasting book of German history!”

People Years Wells Book Today Past Universe Nations United Known Lord Enemy Atheism Honor Gratitude Members Treated Lasting Bows Deceiving Providence Great Nations German History

Book:Hitler's Words

Source: Hitler's Words

“Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.”

Pleasure Pay Half Enemy Honor Conscience Secure Tribute Public Enemies

Author:William Congreve

“One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.”

Doe Forget Enemy Honor Insult Submit Humiliation Worthless Superfluous Dishonor Quails

Book:The decline of the West

Source: The decline of the West

“The deadliest blow the enemy of the human soul can strike is to do fury honor. . . . Official acceptance is the one unmistakable symptom that salvation is beaten again, and is the one surest sign of fatal misunderstanding, and is the kiss of Judas.”

Humans Soul Enemy Acceptance Honor Kissing Salvation Blow Strikes Officials Beaten Symptoms Misunderstanding Fury Human Soul Judas

Book:Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families

Source: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families

“The Christians do not commit adultery. They do not bear false witness. They do not covet their neighbor's goods. They honor father and mother. They love their neighbors. They judge justly. They avoid doing to others what they do not wish done to them. They do good to their enemies. They are kind.”

Kind Done Christian Mother Father Wish Christianity Enemy Judging Bears Honor Neighbor Commit Witness Goods Adultery False Witness

Author:Aristides of Athens

“Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.”

Giving Night Sleep Enemy Honor Give Me Ambitious Honorable

Book:A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

Source: A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

“If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death doesn’t exist. Death is death. But it’s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy”

Ifs Action Enemy Principles Higher Honor Survival Advantage Mercy Revenge Code Aspire Honorable Predictable Honorable Death

Author:Frank Beddor

“There’s more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior — the best warrior — isn’t cruel or mean. He doesn’t claw an enemy who can’t fight back. Where’s the honor in that?”

Mean Fighting Enemy Honor Killing Warrior Claws True Warrior

Author:Erin Hunter

“The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed... The heart's fierce effort to protect itself from every slight, to shield its touchy honor from the bad opinion of friend and enemy, will never let the mind have rest.”

Mind Heart Self Love Is Effort Opinion Enemy Humility Self Love Honor Protect Labor Heavy Christian Inspirational Fierce Shields Friends And Enemies Touchy

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

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