Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.... The friction tends to arise when the two are not the same..… - Lois McMaster Bujold

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself... Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And
outlive the bastards.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That’s soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We’re not giving up. We’re waiting for a better opportunity to win.

It reminded him of that definition of his father's. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. The mind was the first and final battleground; the stuff in between was just noise.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they’ll be called on to do before the next chance.