Duty And Honor Quotes:

"Duty, Honor, Country" - those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: Country, War, Honor, Duty And Honor, Duty To God

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Calvin Coolidge (1920). “Law and Order”

topic: Life, Leadership, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Charity, Kindness Generosity

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

- Douglas MacArthur

source: Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

topic: Country, Honor, Three, Duty And Honor, Duty To God

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

- George W. Bush

topic: Leadership, Country, Character, Duty And Honor

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Freedom, Justice And Mercy, Single Word

A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.

- Robert E. Lee

topic: Life And Love, Men, Civil War, True Gentleman, True Man

Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.

- Stonewall Jackson

topic: Providence, Duty, Duty And Honor

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

- Pierre Corneille

topic: Heaven, Duty, Duty And Honor

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

- Lee Child

source: Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 1, 7-Book Bundle: Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, The Hard Way, Bad Luck and Trouble, Nothing to Lose, Gone Tomorrow”, p.1381, Delacorte Press

topic: Jobs, Giving, Honor, Less Fortunate, Duty And Honor

However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest development of mankind.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: Country, Memorial Day, War, Duty And Honor

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

- Douglas MacArthur

source: Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

topic: Plato, War, Mean, Warmongers, Ominous

The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.

- Douglas MacArthur

source: Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY

topic: Religious, Sacrifice, Men, Physical Courage, Duty And Honor

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: War, Victory, Indecision, Soldiers At War, Military Soldier

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

- Douglas MacArthur

topic: Dream, War, Gun, Strange Dreams, Duty And Honor

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

- George Santayana

topic: Military, War, Philosophical, Soldiers At War, Just War

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

- Plato

topic: Plato, War, Ends, Soldiers At War, Just War

There is a way of losing that is finding. When soul overmasters sense. When the noble and divine self overcomes the lower self. When duty and honor and love immortal things bid the mortal perish. It is only when a man supremely gives that he supremely finds

- Joshua Chamberlain

topic: Men, Self, Giving, Duty And Honor

In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.

- Bette Lord

topic: Hands, Civilization, Water, Hollow, Placid

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

- Charles William Eliot

topic: Education, Honor, World, Liberal Education, Good Judgment

I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. ... I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. ... Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.

- Mark Satin

topic: War, Exercise, Thinking, Duty And Honor