What is Honor?  What does it look like?

• Regard with high respect or esteem
• Fulfill and obligation or honor an agreement
• A person or thing that brings credit
• Adherence to what is right or to a conventional standard of conduct
• Something regarded as a rare opportunity and bringing pride and pleasure; a privilege
• A thing conferred as a distinction, especially an official award for bravery or achievement.

Honor the Soldier Quotes

• “It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” — General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
• “Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.” –Billy Graham
• “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.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
• “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.” — G.K. Chesterton
• “The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.” –Patrick Henry
• Never give in –never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” –Winston Churchill
• “It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the organizer, who gave us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag.” –Father Dennis Edward O’Brien, USMC
• “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
• “The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.” – Thucydides
• “I am a Soldier, I fight where I am told, and I win where I fight.” -George S. Patton