We prefer that the leaders of the Iraqi armed forces do the honorable thing; stop fighting for a regime that does not deserve your loyalty.
~By Peter Pace ~
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 ~
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
~By Neil Simon ~
My honor is my loyalty.
~By Heinrich Himmler ~
We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.
~By George Crook ~
You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
~By William Lyon Phelps ~
But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
What is permissible is not always honorable.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
~By Adam Clarke ~
I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.
~By Sally Ride ~
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
~By Herbert Hoover ~
Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.
~By Philo ~
There's now a Fat Tony doll, which cracks me up. But you feel honored that they asked you to do a voice.
~By Joe Mantegna ~
Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
~By David D. Burns ~
Even a poor man can receive honors.
~By Sophocles ~
It is a remarkable honor to receive a Nobel Prize, because it not only recognizes discoveries, but also their usefulness to the advancement of fundamental science.
~By Peter Agre ~
Sci-fi nerds are respectful, honorable. You can trust them.
~By Claudia Christian ~
Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?
~By Mike Judge ~
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
~By Daniel Webster ~
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 drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.
~By Leonid Andreyev ~
Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
~By David Hare ~
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
~By David Mallet ~
The real reason I run is to bring honor to Jesus.
~By Charity Fillmore ~
A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
~By Studs Terkel ~
A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
~By Pindar ~
It is an honor to be on the cover of this game because the World Cup is such a big thing around the world. My kids are really quite impressed so that's fun.
~By Claudio Reyna ~
I know why I am here and my only real focused goal is to live each day to the fullest and to try and honor God and be an encouragement to others. What the future holds is firmly in God's hands, and I am very happy about that!
~By Ken Hensley ~
If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
~By Pat Boone ~
Let us also reflect on the honorable service of our men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces currently serving our country overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan, and around the world.
~By John Linder ~
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
~By Rose Kennedy ~
Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
~By Joe Paterno ~
I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.
~By Kristen Bell ~
You have had indeed a fair trial. It is a shocking thing when a judge of your high office is shown to have betrayed the truth and his honor, and I sentence you to the penitentiary.
~By Florence E. Allen ~
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
~By Cal Thomas ~
Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.
~By Paul Weyrich ~
There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.
~By Ann Landers ~
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
~By Walt Whitman ~
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 have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
~By Alice Walker ~
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 ~
We produce programs that honor God and impact our world.
~By Willie Aames ~
Cartooning is an honorable thing.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.
~By George Washington ~
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.
~By Winfield Scott Hancock ~
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 ~
The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?
~By Billy Preston ~
Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.
~By Meg Ryan ~
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 ~
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.
~By Billy Joel ~
I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
~By Mary McCarthy ~
True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
~By Saint Ignatius ~
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
~By Harriet Martineau ~
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
~By Saint Aurelius Augustine ~
One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
~By Zhuangzi ~
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
~By James Allen ~
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
~By William Shakespeare ~
It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.
~By Joe Baca ~
The law often allows what honor forbids.
~By Bernard Joseph Saurin ~
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.
~By Meg Greenfield ~
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
~By John Howe ~
The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.
~By George W. Bush ~
I was mostly surprised by the rap artists, actually, that were influenced by Sabbath. That was a surprise. But it's very nice and I'm very honored. It's nice to know after 27 years now that what I said in the first place has stuck, and that was the belief in it.
~By Tony Iommi ~
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 ~
Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
What is left when honor is lost?
~By Publilius Syrus ~
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it.
~By Henry Laurens ~
You feel touched and honored and alive when you give to someone.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
All is lost save honor.
~By Francis I ~
You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
So one important lesson of Vietnam is, the first casualty of an unwise and unjust war are the American troops called on to fight it. Their service should be honored.
~By Paul Begala ~
Marriage: love, honor, and negotiate.
~By Joe Moore ~
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 ~
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family.
~By Paul Harris ~
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 ~
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.
~By Marguerite de Valois ~
The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.
~By Hjalmar Schacht ~
It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
~By Robert Redford ~
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
~By Claud-Adrian Helvetius ~
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
~By Dennis Banks ~
If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible.
~By Epictetus ~
It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
~By Branch Rickey ~
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
~By Socrates ~
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
~By Sallust ~
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