Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

My name is more important than myself.

I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don't think our veterans should join those ranks.

Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

Dignity of position adds to dignity of character, as well as to dignity of carriage. Give us a proud position, and we are impelled to act up to it.

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night." "How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night." "No," Reacher said. "If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

It felt wrong to be so proud of something that I had absolutely nothing to do with, but I couldn't help myself.

Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved.

I'm a military baby, and it makes me proud to know that I'm the child of two parents that served our country. I feel very connected to our country, and I'm honored to be an American.

The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

The fewer men, the greater share of honor.

Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest .

The second-highest honor is playing for your country, and the highest honor is wearing the armband for your country. It shows that the players have confidence in me, and that feels good.

I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses.

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!

It's a funny thing, but, as years go by, I think you appreciate more and more what a great thing it was to be a United States Marine... People will tell me what a shame it was I had to go back into the service a second time, but I'm kinda glad I did.. Besides, I am a U.S. Marine and I'll be one till I die.