Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.
~By Charles de Secondat ~
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.
~By George Washington ~
My honor is my loyalty.
~By Heinrich Himmler ~
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
~By David Mallet ~
We hope that this honor you have done us will bring the time of further realization of these benefits closer and will help all mankind to live better and be happier through the atom and isotopes.
~By Willard Libby ~
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
A woman is a citizen who works for Mexico. We must not treat her differently from a man, except to honor her more.
~By Adolfo Lopez Mateos ~
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
~By John Howe ~
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
~By Jeff Miller ~
Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.
~By Richard Neal ~
Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
~By Horace ~
Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.
~By Russell M. Nelson ~
It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~
Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.
~By Mark Foley ~
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner.
~By Edward Everett ~
Honor is but an empty bubble.
~By John Dryden ~
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane.
~By Jane Harrison ~
Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.
~By Bradley Whitford ~
There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.
~By Francis I ~
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
~By Laura Schlessinger ~
But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
~By Dabney Coleman ~
Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
~By Akhenaton ~
There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.
~By William Bolcom ~
When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.
~By Max Lerner ~
The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~By Aristotle ~
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.
~By Eldridge Cleaver ~
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
~By A. B. Yehoshua ~
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
~By Jean Rostand ~
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
~By James L. Buckley ~
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
~By Ben Jonson ~
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.
~By Ethel Merman ~
Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
~By William Shakespeare ~
If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.
~By Akhenaton ~
Mr. Lincoln's elevation shows that in America every station in life may be honorable; that there is no barrier against the humblest; but that merit, wherever it exists, has the opportunity to be known.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
~By Mary Kay Ash ~
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
~By Janine Turner ~
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.
~By Wyndham Lewis ~
The president welcomes peaceful protests - it is a time-honored tradition. The president agrees violence is not the answer in Iraq, and that's why he hopes Saddam Hussein will disarm.
~By Ari Fleischer ~
I had the honor and privilege of working with John Ritter.
~By Will Friedle ~
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
Wherever there are rock 'n' rollers, we'll play. That's what we've been doing for more than 30 years - rock 'n' roll. It's made me everything from an honorary mayor to honorary member of a motorcycle gang.
~By Ronnie Hawkins ~
Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.
~By Ishmael Reed ~
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
~By Studs Terkel ~
And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever.
~By Jim Valvano ~
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
~By Steven Brust ~
In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.
~By Boris Pasternak ~
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.
~By Norah Jones ~
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
~By Ricardo Montalban ~
The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
~By Cesare Lombroso ~
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
~By John Adams ~
To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.
~By Cindy Sheehan ~
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
~By Alfred Day Hershey ~
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.
~By Mark Pryor ~
It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.
~By Harry Houdini ~
I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
~By Hailee Steinfeld ~
Ability without honor is useless.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
~By Edward Fitzgerald ~
If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
I could not love thee, dear, so much, loved I not honor more.
~By Richard Lovelace ~
The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
~By Jose Marti ~
In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
~By Stanford Moore ~
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
I responded to the request because during these times when we are asking so much of our men and women in the armed services it is especially important that we properly honor those who died in the service of their country.
~By Robert A. Brady ~
You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
~By Peter Cooper ~
Dick Clark is an American icon. I am honored that he has entrusted me with such a role in this national tradition.
~By Ryan Seacrest ~
I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
~By Karen Duffy ~
The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?
~By Billy Preston ~
The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
~By Karel Capek ~
Honor your commitments with integrity.
~By Les Brown ~
As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.
~By Dave Reichert ~
For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.
~By Steve Buyer ~
You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.
~By Matthew Green ~
I owe all of this to the guys I've played with and all the coaches that have helped me get to where I'm at right now. I'm honored to be here.
~By Allen Iverson ~
Cartooning is an honorable thing.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
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