#honor

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#disposition #esteem #general #glory #happy

Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#humor #julie-garwood #romance #humor

Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed some terrible shame in the background, to be kept from the light in which I thought she lived perpetually! Oh, Margaret, Margaret! Mother, how you have tortured me! Oh! Margaret, could you not have loved me? I am but uncouth and hard, but I would never have led you into any falsehood for me. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#deception #dishonor #falsehood #love #shame

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#justice #personal-responsibility #responsibility #life

…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#death-before-dishonor #in-the-end #inevitable #oaths #the-dead

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. ↗

— Hubert Humphrey

#honor #pride #recovery #friendship

When we live our life as if it is an open book, we are free in body, mind, and spirit and allow anyone to read from our pages. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#honor #inspirational-quotes #integrity #joy #love

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#honor #love #sacrifice #love

Son, a real battlefield lacks dignity and honor. When lives are being spent—actual human lives—those high-minded concepts lose their meaning. All that matters is victory. If you have blades, you’ll use blades. If you have rocks, you’ll use rocks. If there’s nothing but sand, you’ll throw the damn sand. A true war is only waged when men don’t want to live to see what failure looks like. You do what it takes to win. You go wherever necessity takes you. ↗

— B. Justin Shier

#failure #honor #victory #war #men

It's funny how people can change your life without meaning to. Even the fucked-up, crazy people leave everything different when they go away. ↗

— Seanan McGuire

#seanan-mcguire #change