Virginia Woolf Quotes

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Mexicans, I die with honour, and not as a traitor. That stain I will not bequeath to my children and their posterity; I am not a traitor, no.

I hsve been called a traitor many times in my career, and it is a badge that I wear with great honor.

Of course, we will face fear, experience ridicule, and meet opposition. Let us have the courage to defy the consensus, the courage to stand for principle. Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.

Allah is my witness. I will not be silent. I will never surrender.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

I'm proud to say I've never been anybody's lapdog.

Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.