
We might've fallen from the horse, but not from the honor.
- Topic: Adversity, Honor, Misfortune
- Location: Glen Canyon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.
Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.
