Honor Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Honor

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If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?
~By Rod Steiger ~


I honor religion except when it gets into shedding blood.
~By Rip Torn ~


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 Lane Allen ~


The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~


Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
~By Joe Paterno ~


When this sad war is over we will all return to our homes, and feel that we can ask no higher honor than the proud consciousness that we belonged to the Army of the Potomac.
~By George B. McClellan ~


The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
~By Socrates ~


We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.
~By Susan Collins ~


But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
~By Bainbridge Colby ~


When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
~By John Greenleaf Whittier ~


I know who I am and can deal with the use of Indian mascots... But I know it can be demeaning to a group of people. Maybe it would be all right if they were truly honoring the people and are giving due respect to the people they are representing.
~By Leonard Little ~


Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.
~By Mario Andretti ~


When I competed, it was for honor and country. It was a privilege to be a part of the U.S. team.
~By Bill Toomey ~


When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~


I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.
~By Dan Fouts ~


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 ~


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 ~


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 ~


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'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
~By Kathleen Turner ~


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 healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
~By Charles W. Pickering ~


It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
~By John Ruskin ~


Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.
~By Paul Weyrich ~


The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all; and for that I am especially grateful.
~By George Wald ~


The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~


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 feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.
~By Casey Stengel ~


Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is the highest honor that can ever be paid, and it's mind-blowing.
~By Dominique Wilkins ~


One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
~By Walter Scott ~


Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~


One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.
~By Adrian Cronauer ~


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 local communities, through their leaders, were able to build a communications network that allowed my work here to reflect the needs and interests of the people within the 9th Congressional District. It's been an honor to do that and we did so successfully.
~By Nick Lampson ~


Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.
~By Stuart Symington ~


From a Christian point of view of course we do want a peaceful world, and I think September 11 did actually make people aware not only of vulnerability and how transitory life is, but there are forces of good and honor and justice which speak to us of God and his love for us.
~By George Carey ~


There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art.
~By George Oppen ~


We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.
~By Bob Ney ~


137 years later, Memorial Day remains one of America's most cherished patriotic observances. The spirit of this day has not changed - it remains a day to honor those who died defending our freedom and democracy.
~By Doc Hastings ~


1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
~By Leon Askin ~


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 honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~


I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
~By Julius Caesar ~


I'll continue to work to ensure that safety and I am honored to have earned the endorsement of the men and women who provide public safety in our city.
~By Alan Autry ~


When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.
~By Ashley Judd ~


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 ~


Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
~By John White Geary ~


Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved.
~By Dominique Wilkins ~


While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.
~By Raul Grijalva ~


When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.
~By Harry S. Truman ~


I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.
~By John Singleton ~


It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~


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 ~


We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants.
~By Jose Serrano ~


Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
~By William Shakespeare ~


If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
~By Mercedes Lackey ~


I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
~By Ozzy Osbourne ~


I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.
~By Pete Seeger ~


I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.
~By Glenn Beck ~


No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
~By Herbert Hoover ~


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 ~


I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
~By Grover Cleveland ~


I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
~By Charles Dickens ~


To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
~By Albert Einstein ~


The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.
~By Hank Stram ~


My honor is my loyalty.
~By Heinrich Himmler ~


It's been a great honor for me to be a player for the Detroit Red Wings, to play for an Original Six franchise. I know I'm far from perfect, but I learned a lot.
~By Steve Yzerman ~


A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
~By Irwin Shaw ~


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 ~


A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
~By Sun Ra ~


For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
~By Aristotle ~


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 ~


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 ~


All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
~By Winston Churchill ~


Honor is but an empty bubble.
~By John Dryden ~


The honor of about 30 million votes remains with the Iranian nation and no enemy scheme would take away this dignity and honor from the Iranian nation.
~By Ayatollah Khamenei ~


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 ~


You know what, Steve Jobs is real nice to me. He lets me be an employee and that's one of the biggest honors of my life.
~By Steve Wozniak ~


Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
~By Anna Quindlen ~


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 ~


Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.
~By Randy West ~


Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
~By William Faulkner ~


I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy, To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible.
~By Maria Menounos ~


I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
~By Sophocles ~


Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~


I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
~By Adam Arkin ~


It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
~By Young Buck ~


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 ~


No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~


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 ~


You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~


Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~


I am still being recognized as Joanie and probably will as long as Happy Days is playing on TV and remembered by Happy Days fans. It has and will always be a pleasure and a honor for me to be a part of it.
~By Erin Moran ~


Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.
~By David Hare ~


Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.
~By Randall Terry ~


Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
~By David D. Burns ~


I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
~By Ira Hayes ~


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 ~


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 ~


The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
~By John Lennon ~

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April 26 ,2024
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